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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Joan work for when she was in her twenties?
(a) Harper's Bazaar.
(b) Good Housekeeping.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

2. When did Joan interview Teresa Heinz Kerry?
(a) Shortly after her husband's death.
(b) During the 2000 campaign.
(c) During the 2004 campaign.
(d) Shortly after her daughter's death.

3. What type of drink did Joan get John when they came from visiting Quintana?
(a) Rum.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Martini.

4. What type of clothing did Joan buy to wear in Los Angeles?
(a) Sleeveless dresses.
(b) Shorts and capris.
(c) Short sleeve blouses.
(d) Blue scrubs.

5. Quintana was a patient at Beth Israel Medical Center's Singer Division, when did that hospital close?
(a) July 2005.
(b) May 2005.
(c) August 2004.
(d) September 2004.

6. Who said that the act of grieving "Involves grave departures from the normal attitude to life"?
(a) Goldstein.
(b) Foucault.
(c) Freud.
(d) Shorter.

7. How old were Joan and her brother when her mother was dying?
(a) In their 50's.
(b) In their70's.
(c) In their 60's.
(d) In their 40's.

8. How often did Joan and John walk?
(a) A couple times a week.
(b) Three or four times a week.
(c) Every morning.
(d) Every afternoon.

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

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

11. How long were the paramedics in Joan's apartment?
(a) 65 minutes.
(b) 70 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 50 minutes.

12. What illness sent Quintana to the emergency room in December 2003?
(a) Flu.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Strep throat.

13. How many times did Joan have to repeat the story of how John died to Quintana?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 2 times.
(d) 1 time.

14. What day of the week did John die?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

15. Which of Joan's novels used an incident about a woman whose abortion was paid for by the district attorney's office?
(a) Play It As It Lays.
(b) Salvador.
(c) Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many paramedics did Joan think came when she called for an ambulance?

2. What poet did John's brother Nick read at the funeral?

3. Who wrote "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States"?

4. What was the date on the computer file that contained the first few lines that Joan wrote after her husband's death?

5. How many people attended John and Joan's wedding?

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