The Year of Magical Thinking Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Year of Magical Thinking Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 was Quintana allowed to fly back to New York?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) March.
(d) June.

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

3. What would John and Joan pass as they drove and began to argue when they lived at Portuguese Bend?
(a) The refineries.
(b) A car dealer.
(c) A large mansion.
(d) The library.

4. How long did it take the ambulance to get to John's and Joan's apartment after the emergency call was received?
(a) 11 minutes.
(b) 8 mintues.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

5. On what peninsula was John and Joan's first house of their married life?
(a) Balboa.
(b) Palos Verdes.
(c) Tiburon.
(d) Point Reyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did the plane that was transporting Quintana land to refuel?

2. What was the date of Joan's birthday?

3. When Joan woke up at 3:30 one morning, what channel was the television set to?

4. Who wrote, "Time is the school in which we learn"?

5. How much money did John and Joan put down as a deposit on the house in Brentwood Park?

Short Essay Questions

1. What thoughts were running through Joan's mind as she flew from Logan airport to LaGuardia after leaving the Democratic convention?

2. What was the sequence of events the night that John died?

3. What did it mean that post-mortem lividity was present in John's body?

4. Why wouldn't the funeral be the worst thing that a grieving person had to experience?

5. Why did Joan resist the tracheostomy so fiercely?

6. Why did Quintana refer to her memory as "mudgy"?

7. Where did John and Joan meet the Blacks?

8. What comments about their wedding day did Joan find that John had written in 1990?

9. Some people think that their deceased loved one can be seen or heard. Did Joan believe that she could see or hear John?

10. How did Joan wear rings and why?

(see the answer keys)

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