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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 many nights had Quintana spent in the hospital between December 2003 and January 2004?
(a) 21 nights.
(b) 15 nights.
(c) 24 nights.
(d) 18 nights.

2. Who was the elevator man who amused himself with John in the elevator with a small verbal game?
(a) Vasile Ionescu.
(b) Manuel Lopez.
(c) Albert Mueller.
(d) Michael Flynn.

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

4. When was Quintana discharged from Beth Israel?
(a) February 15, 2004.
(b) February 5, 2004.
(c) January 22, 2004.
(d) January 30, 2004.

5. After Teresa Heinz Kerry's first husband died, where did she feel a need to go?
(a) Boston.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Washington.
(d) Trenton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Matthew Arnold poem did Joan mention reading in Chapter 4?

2. How much did the drug cost that Quintana was given to treat her sepsis?

3. When did Quintana and Gerry fly to California?

4. What type of drink did Joan get John when they came from visiting Quintana?

5. What radio station did Joan listen to when she lived in California?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did friends and relatives help Joan in the first three weeks after John died?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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