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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. When John's funeral took place, how many months had it been since Quintana's wedding?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 8 months.

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

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

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

5. What was the date of John's funeral?
(a) March 23.
(b) February 23.
(c) January 23.
(d) April 23.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did the paramedics arrive at Joan's apartment building?

2. How many times did Joan have to repeat the story of how John died to Quintana?

3. Quintana was a patient at Beth Israel Medical Center's Singer Division, when did that hospital close?

4. Who was Quintana's best friend from California?

5. How many nights had Quintana spent in the hospital between December 2003 and January 2004?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why was John depressed in 2003?

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

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

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