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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date of John and Joan's wedding?

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

3. What was Joan watching when she first noticed the vortex effect?

4. How did John's father die?

5. When did John have a pacemaker implanted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did friends and relatives help Joan in the first three weeks after John died?

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

5. What did Freud say about grief?

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

7. Where did Joan and John walk together during their morning walks?

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

9. Why was Quintanna, Joan's and John's daughter in the hospital, when her father died?

10. During her reading, what did Joan learn were some means that were used to test a patient's memory and comprehension?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the summer, Joan began to feel fragile and unstable. Discuss why Joan felt fragile and unstable and how she coped with these feelings, giving quotes from the book to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

During Christmas of 2004, Joan compared how she did things when John was alive and the type of person that she was before he died. Compare Joan and her routine before and after John's death.

Essay Topic 3

When Joan flew to Los Angeles to be with Quintana, she knew that Los Angeles had the potential for triggering the vortex effect. Discuss why Los Angeles was the most likely place to trigger the vortex effect and how Joan avoided triggering this effect when in the city. Define the vortext effect and use s

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