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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. When is the Milford Memories festival held?
(a) September.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) August.

2. What singing group did Lynch desire to emulate?
(a) The Everly Brothers.
(b) The Rolling Stones.
(c) Simon and Garfunkel.
(d) The Who.

3. In what Irish county was Sweeney born?
(a) Kerry.
(b) Donegal.
(c) Monaghan.
(d) Cork.

4. What did Lynch suggest as music for his funeral?
(a) Pianists.
(b) Pipers and tinwhistlers.
(c) Guitarists.
(d) Bagpipers.

5. What medical topic did Sweeney broach when eating rainbow trout?
(a) Microsurgery.
(b) Heart surgery.
(c) Urinary tract infections.
(d) PMS.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Matthew Sweeney born?

2. What was Kevorkian's training in?

3. What poet is quoted at the beginning of "Tract"?

4. What rock group did Lynch allude to in Chapter 7?

5. In Lynch's analogy of life as a trip across America, at what point do you meet a girl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Lynch feel about the prospect of his loved ones feeling guilt at his funeral?

4. How does Sweeney approach the consuming of food delicacies?

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

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

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

8. Describe Lynch's grandmothers.

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

10. What kind of music did Lynch want at his funeral?

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