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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. How many beds were in the acute rehab unit at UCLA Neuropsychiatric?
2. What restaurant would John and Joan go to for breakfast after a dentist appointment?
3. What anticoagulant was John taking?
4. Where did John graduate from college?
5. When Joan wrote her first piece after John died, when was the last time that he didn't read one of her drafts?
Short Essay Questions
1. What would John and Joan do after the 1992 Democratic convention?
2. After reading the autopsy report, what did Joan finally begin to believe?
3. What little things could Joan do for Quintana when she was at Rusk Institute?
4. What did Joan argue about with a doctor after Quintana had been intubated for almost a week?
5. What arrangements were made to transfer Quintana from UCLA to New York University Hospital in New York?
6. What did Joan do in the summer when she began feeling fragile and unstable?
7. Why wouldn't the funeral be the worst thing that a grieving person had to experience?
8. Describe the dream about the braided belt and what it meant to Joan.
9. Why did John and Joan have trouble selling their house in Malibu?
10. Over the years, what would Dominique do with Quintana?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
John insisted on a trip to Paris in November because he believed if he didn't go then, he would never see Paris before he died. Discuss why John believed that he was dying.
Essay Topic 2
When Quintana was in the ICU at UCLA, Joan whispered a promise to her, the same promise Joan had been making since Quintana was a child. Discuss the promise that Joan always made to Quintana. Why it was a promise that she could not keep?
Essay Topic 3
When Joan went to UCLA to be with Quintana, she expected that Los Angeles would be the place most likely to trigger the vortex effect. Discuss why Los Angeles was the place most likely to trigger the vortex effect and how Joan avoided triggering this effect.
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