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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 kind of car did the two teachers commit suicide in?
(a) Oldsmobile.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Ford.
(d) Chrysler.

2. What magazines did Lynch find on the wife's side of the bed?
(a) Family Circles.
(b) Women's Days.
(c) Vogues.
(d) Cosmopolitans.

3. In what German city did Sweeney study?
(a) Mainz.
(b) Munich.
(c) Heidelberg.
(d) Freiburg.

4. In what year was Matthew Sweeney born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

5. If he is cremated, what does Lynch want done with the ashes?
(a) Scattered over town.
(b) Buried.
(c) Kept in the funeral parlor.
(d) Kept in his family's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Jack Kevorkian assist in his first suicide?

2. To what society club did Lynch belong?

3. In what month would Lynch prefer to die?

4. What did Uncle Eddie need help coming up with as he was starting his suicide cleanup business?

5. What TV show did Mary Jackson appear in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What perspective did Lynch reach on the night his mother was buried?

2. What lesson did Lynch want to teach Sweeney with his story of the man killed by the falling vehicle at the scrap metal yard?

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

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

5. Describe Matthew Sweeney's personality.

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

7. How does Lynch describe people's different approaches to living life at the end of Chapter 8 and which approach did Sweeney take?

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

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

10. What characteristic of "successful" suicides did Lynch say he admired?

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