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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. What was the name of the book John was reading the night he died?
(a) The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I.
(b) Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War of 1914?
(c) The Pity of War Explaining World War I.
(d) The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War.

2. On what floor of the hospital was the ICU located where Quintana was a patient when John died?
(a) 4th floor.
(b) 6th floor.
(c) 8th floor.
(d) 3rd floor.

3. What poet did John's brother Nick read at the funeral?
(a) Horace.
(b) Catullus.
(c) Ennius.
(d) Lucan.

4. What day was Quintana taken to the hospital emergency room toward the end of 2003?
(a) December 25.
(b) November 15.
(c) December 18.
(d) November 30.

5. 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) Democracy.
(d) Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were Joan and her brother when her mother was dying?

2. When did John have a pacemaker implanted?

3. What was the press rate for a lanai suite at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel when Joan began working for "Life"?

4. What color sorbet and napkins did Quintana have at her wedding?

5. When did an author write "Mourning and Melancholia"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened when Gerry and Quintana arrived in California?

4. Who came to stay with Joan in the weeks that followed John's death?

5. What one object did Sara Mankiewicz remove from her house when John and Joan rented it and why?

6. Where did Joan and John walk together during their morning walks?

7. In Chapter 4, what does Joan say about where and when she and John were married?

8. What promise did Joan make to Quintana that she realized that she would not be able to keep and why?

9. Describe John's funeral.

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

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