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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 did Joan wear to her wedding?

2. What illness sent Quintana to the emergency room in December 2003?

3. How many widowers were studied in the United Kingdom, according to a report in "The Lancet"?

4. When did John have a pacemaker implanted?

5. When John's funeral took place, how many months had it been since Quintana's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Freud say about grief?

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

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

4. What did Joan first think when she looked up and saw John slumped over, motionless at dinner?

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

6. Describe John's funeral.

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

8. What were the first words that Joan wrote after her husband's death?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Quintana's release from the hospital and when she flew to California, Joan believed that she might be beginning a new season of life. Discuss why Joan believed she was entering a new season of life and why that season was short-lived. Support your statements with quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

At times, Joan did not believe that she was operating from her rational mind. Discuss why Joan said that she was not operating from her rational mind and what helped her think more rationally.

Essay Topic 3

Compare how death was regarded before and after the 1930's with when Joan was growing up.

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