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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. Where did Quintana get the Canyon Ranch T-shirt that John usually wore when he went walking?
(a) California.
(b) Arizona.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Texas.

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

3. Who wrote "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States"?
(a) Peter Phillips.
(b) Bridget Davidson.
(c) Melanie Klein.
(d) Martin Andrews.

4. When did an author write "Mourning and Melancholia"?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1917.

5. When was "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States" written?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1937.

Short Answer Questions

1. After John's death, which of John's novels did Joan realize was about grief?

2. When did Joan interview Teresa Heinz Kerry?

3. When were the 2004 Academy Awards held?

4. After Teresa Heinz Kerry's first husband died, where did she feel a need to go?

5. What color were John's eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What expensive drug was Quintana given when she developed sepsis?

3. What did John do before he and Joan ate dinner the night of December 30?

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

5. Why did a woman that Joan worked with at "Vogue" have an abortion that was paid for by the attorney general's office?

6. Why did Joan write "The Year of Magical Thinking"?

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

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

9. How did John, Joan, Gerry and Quintana spend Thanksgiving 2003?

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

(see the answer keys)

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