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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. By what plant in the box garden did John or Joan place Quintana in her bassinet when they first brought her home?
(a) Wisteria.
(b) Roses.
(c) Spirea.
(d) Lilacs.

2. Who spoke at the senior banquet when John graduated from college?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) William Holden.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

3. On what street was the Rusk Institute located?
(a) 64th St.
(b) 52nd St.
(c) 41st. St.
(d) 34th St.

4. What pattern of dishes did Joan find in a cupboard that John's mother had given him?
(a) Woodland.
(b) Wickerdale.
(c) Delamere.
(d) Stafford.

5. When Joan awakened at 3:30 one morning, who was being interviewed on TV?
(a) Passengers from Northwest Flight 327.
(b) AIDS orphans.
(c) Afghanistani refugees.
(d) The Spanish Prime Minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Joan find meaning in life?

2. What year was it when John and Joan were at a red light and saw the driver suddenly slump over his steering wheel?

3. Which of Joan's novels had a passage about dreams?

4. When did Joan request a copy of John's autopsy?

5. What book did Julia Child have inscribed to give to John?

Short Essay Questions

1. After reading the autopsy report, what did Joan finally begin to believe?

2. Over the years, what would Dominique do with Quintana?

3. What arrangements were made to transfer Quintana from UCLA to New York University Hospital in New York?

4. What would John and Joan do after the 1992 Democratic convention?

5. What did Joan argue about with a doctor after Quintana had been intubated for almost a week?

6. Why did John and Joan have trouble selling their house in Malibu?

7. What were some things that John said that Joan should or should not do if something happened to him?

8. What did Joan do in the summer when she began feeling fragile and unstable?

9. Where did John and Joan meet the Blacks?

10. How would Quintana spend weekends when she was at Rusk Institute?

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