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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. According to Quintana, what sandwich did she and Joan share when the plane that was transporting them to New York stopped to refuel?
(a) A Quarter Pounder.
(b) A Big Mac.
(c) A Fish Filet.
(d) A McChicken.

2. Where was the male patient from who lay to the left of Quintana's bed at UCLA?
(a) Utah.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Connecticut.

3. How old was Joan when Quintana was three years old?
(a) 31 years old.
(b) 32 years old.
(c) 34 years old.
(d) 29 years old.

4. How old was Joan when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 7 years old.
(d) 8 years old.

5. Which Protestant denomination did Joan say used these words in a litany, "as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end"?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Episcopal.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Methodist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to working at "The New Yorker," where did John's editor work?

2. What year did John graduate from college?

3. What percent was the stenosis of John's left main and left anterior descending arteries?

4. What medication was given to John at the apartment three times while paramedics worked on him?

5. In Chapter 13, what was the name of the character in the excerpt Joan quoted from a novel she wrote in the mid-1990's?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Joan resist the tracheostomy so fiercely?

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

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

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

6. Why did Joan use to tell John her dreams.

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

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

9. What book did Joan receive from Princeton late in the summer?

10. Why did Joan find herself in tears when she was walking to the opening of the Democratic convention?

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