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

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

3. How much did it cost in the late 1960's to fly from Los Angeles to San Francisco or Sacramento or San Jose for a round trip flight?
(a) $149.
(b) $26.
(c) $99.
(d) $58.

4. Who cleaned the blood on the living room floor after John died?
(a) Felipe.
(b) Roberto.
(c) Jose.
(d) Manuel.

5. What flowers were on a wallpaper border in a room at Beth Israel North?
(a) Roses.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Forget Me Nots.
(d) Daisies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Quintana discharged from Beth Israel?

2. How much did it cost Joan and John to rent a house on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood many years ago?

3. When did Joan first notice what she called the "vortex" effect?

4. When John's funeral took place, how many months had it been since Quintana's wedding?

5. When did John die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Joan describe people who recently lost someone?

2. Why was Quintanna, Joan's and John's daughter in the hospital, when her father died?

3. What incidents indicated that Joan was not thinking clearly?

4. What advice about attending funerals did Joan read that was written by Emily Post in her 1922 book of etiquette?

5. What did Melanie Klein say about grief?

6. How did Joan, Gerry and Tony plan to tell Quintana that her father died?

7. Why were Joan and John evicted from their house on the Palos Verdes Peninsula?

8. What were the first words that Joan wrote after her husband's death?

9. Why on most surface levels did Joan seem rational?

10. What did John look like when Joan saw him in the emergency room?

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