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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of fish were in the pond at Rusk Institute?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Flagfish.
(c) Mosquito fish.
(d) Koi.

2. When did Quintana get a tracheotomy at UCLA?
(a) March 31.
(b) April 1.
(c) March 27.
(d) April 12.

3. What time was John pronounced dead?
(a) 11:13 p.m.
(b) 9:47 p.m.
(c) 10: 53 p.m.
(d) 10:18 p.m.

4. How did Dominique die?
(a) She died in a plane accident.
(b) She was strangled to death.
(c) She died in a car accident.
(d) She had a sudden illness.

5. Who won the last basketball game that Joan attended with John and friends in November 2003?
(a) Celtics.
(b) Lakers.
(c) Knicks.
(d) 76ers.

6. What time did Quintana have therapy at Rusk Institute?
(a) 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
(c) 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
(d) 8 a.m. to noon.

7. Where did John graduate from college?
(a) Brown.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

8. How old was Joan when she despised the book "Leftover Life to Kill"?
(a) 35 years old.
(b) 29 years old.
(c) 22 years old.
(d) 31 years old.

9. When did a study done by University of Californ San Diego and Tufts show that there was a 4.65 percent increase in cardiac death?
(a) During anniversaries.
(b) Around birthdays.
(c) Between Christmas and New Year's.
(d) After the death of a family member.

10. Who wrote, "Time is the school in which we learn"?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Ezra Pound.
(d) Delmore Schwartz.

11. Which of Joan's novels had a passage about dreams?
(a) Where I Was From.
(b) Run, River.
(c) The Last Thing He Wanted.
(d) After Henry.

12. What might Quintana and Gerry do during the weekend while Quintana was at Rusk?
(a) Play card games in her room.
(b) Walk around the hospital.
(c) Go to lunch and a movie.
(d) Go for a walk in a nearby park.

13. When was Quintana allowed to fly back to New York?
(a) May.
(b) March.
(c) June.
(d) April.

14. When did the Democratic convention begin?
(a) August 12, 2004.
(b) July 26, 2004.
(c) August 4, 2004.
(d) July 31, 2004.

15. Which of Euripedes' plays did Joan feel that she must reread?
(a) Alcestis.
(b) Medea.
(c) The Bacchae.
(d) Trojan Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Nick's daughter Dominique die?

2. What type of a tree did Joan drape colored Christmas lights on in Chapter 20?

3. When Joan wrote her first piece after John died, when was the last time that he didn't read one of her drafts?

4. What type of a dog did Joan and John have in 1987?

5. Where did John and Joan meet Joe and Gertrude Black?

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