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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "coupons" did Lynch give to his family in "The Tract"?
(a) Coupons to either disregard or approve of his wishes.
(b) Coupons to develop their own plans.
(c) Coupons to disapprove of any aspect of his wishes.
(d) Copuons to approve all of his wishes.

2. What did Lynch sarcastically mention as a "tidy" type of assisted suicide?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Jumping off a building.
(c) Shooting range.
(d) Electrocution.

3. When were the first sealed caskets made?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1930.

4. What sport did Lynch mention watching with loved ones in bad weather?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Golf.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

5. What was the cause of death in the case of the young man Lynch tended to in "All Hallows' Eve"?
(a) Motorcycle accident.
(b) Suicide by rifle.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Suicide by shotgun.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Matthew Sweeney born?

2. Approximately how many Japanese die of fugu poisoning every year?

3. How many assisted suicides are cremated?

4. What did Lynch not want at his funeral?

5. What is the name of the river that divides Milford in half?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lynch mean when he said that "in even the best of caskets, it never all fits"?

2. What did Lynch see as the advantage of being at the midpoint of one's life?

3. Why did authors such as Jessica Mitford attack the funeral industry?

4. How did Lynch react to the body of the young man who shot himself in Chapter 9?

5. What statement does a casket, versus a simple coffin, make?

6. How did the funeral processions through town change when the Oak Grove bridge collapsed?

7. How do most people view undertakers, according to Lynch?

8. How does Lynch view a world in which certain deaths are acceptable (abortion, war, capital punishment)?

9. How do Lynch and his wife differ in their views of Milford as they walk through town in Chapter 7?

10. Why did Janet Adkins ask Jack Kevorkian to assist in her suicide?

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