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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Quintana's temperature the first time she went to the emergency room?
(a) 102.
(b) 104.
(c) 105.
(d) 103.

2. Where was the funeral for John held?
(a) Church of Christ the King.
(b) Church of St. Augustine.
(c) Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
(d) Church of St. Anthony of Padua.

3. Who wrote "A Grief Observed"?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) Martha Whitmore.
(c) H. Norman Wright.
(d) Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

4. What was the date of John and Joan's wedding?
(a) March 15, 1965.
(b) June 29, 1964.
(c) January 30, 1964.
(d) April 12, 1965.

5. What book did Joan buy, but have difficult deciphering the language?
(a) The Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing.
(b) Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases.
(c) High-Yield Neuroanatomy.
(d) Clinical Neuroanatomy.

6. How did John's father die?
(a) Cardiac arrest.
(b) A car accident.
(c) A construction accident.
(d) A stroke.

7. When did John have a pacemaker implanted?
(a) June 2003.
(b) April 2003.
(c) September 2002.
(d) November 2002.

8. What was Joan watching when she first noticed the vortex effect?
(a) Icicles dripping.
(b) Snow.
(c) Ice floes.
(d) Rain.

9. How old was Quintana when Joan wrote a book that told about a woman whose abortion was paid for by the district attorney's office?
(a) 5 years old.
(b) 3 years old
(c) 4 years old.
(d) 2 years old.

10. What Matthew Arnold poem did Joan mention reading in Chapter 4?
(a) The Forsaken Merman.
(b) A Dream.
(c) The Buried Life.
(d) Dover Beach.

11. Where did John take Quintana so Joan could finish her first column for "Life"?
(a) Waikiki Aquarium.
(b) Honolulu Zoo.
(c) A playground.
(d) Out to eat.

12. When did John have his last cardioversion?
(a) July 2003.
(b) January 2003.
(c) April 2003.
(d) March 2003.

13. Where was Quintana born?
(a) Holmby Hills.
(b) Fullerton.
(c) Santa Monica.
(d) Malibu.

14. What radio station did Joan listen to when she lived in California?
(a) KRLA.
(b) KNZR.
(c) KELT.
(d) KYIX.

15. What type of ATM card did John have in his pocket when he died?
(a) Capital One.
(b) Chase.
(c) Wells Fargo.
(d) Bank of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cleaned the blood on the living room floor after John died?

2. After Teresa Heinz Kerry's first husband died, where did she feel a need to go?

3. After John's death, which of John's novels did Joan realize was about grief?

4. What word did Joan consider adding in the phrase, "Life changes in the instant"?

5. What did Quintana put up her nose twice in two days when she was little?

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