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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 did Uncle Eddie need help coming up with as he was starting his suicide cleanup business?
(a) A newspaper ad.
(b) Brochures.
(c) An easy to remember 800 number.
(d) A snappy Yellow Pages ad.

2. Approximately what percentage of Americans move at any given time?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

3. What American writer referred to the "imp of the perverse"?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) H.P. Lovecraft.

4. How long was the old-fashioned mourning period?
(a) One year.
(b) As long as the grieved needed it to be.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

5. In Lynch's analogy of life as a trip across America, at what point do you meet a girl?
(a) Ohio.
(b) The Poconos.
(c) Memphis.
(d) The Appalachians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medical topic did Sweeney broach when eating rainbow trout?

2. What kind of food was served at The Red Fort?

3. What did Kevorkian's attorney suggest for the doctor?

4. How much did the mahogany casket cost?

5. How much did the simple cardboard box cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lynch want from his funeral, when all was said and done?

2. Describe Lynch's grandmothers.

3. Why have more and more Americans opted for cremation, according to Lynch?

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

5. How does Lynch view the current state of debate over abortion?

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

7. Describe Matthew Sweeney's personality.

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

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

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

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