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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. What flowers were flattened to build kennels for Paul's wife's dogs?
(a) Daisies, tulips, and daffodils.
(b) Peonies, lilies, lilacs.
(c) Roses and lupines.
(d) Black-eyed Susans and purple coneflowers.

2. What is painted inside the ceramic bowl that Marjorie buys?
(a) Olive tree.
(b) Octopus.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Daisies.

3. What type of container holds the ashes for Paul?
(a) Grecian urn.
(b) Chinese urn.
(c) Plastic box.
(d) Wooden box.

4. What was Lil's job after she finished university?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Teaching English.
(c) Teaching history.
(d) Accountant.

5. What used the graze the land around the house where Fenno grew up?
(a) Angus cows and Shropshire sheep.
(b) Guernsey cows and Merino sheep.
(c) Simmental cows and Bovec sheep.
(d) Brahman cows and Charollais Sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Fenno in 1986?

2. In 1986 how many of Fenno's friends died of complications of AIDS within the past year?

3. In Chapter 5, when does Dennis say that he visited his dad in Greece?

4. How old were Paul's boys when he and his wife moved to a house called Tealing?

5. In Chapter 7, how long has Fenno lived in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ralph and Fenno happen to find Armand dead at one of his bistro tables?

2. What is inside the envelope that Fenno finds addressed to him in his father's desk?

3. What does Fenno say about his mother's death in Chapter 4?

4. Who was Colin Swift?

5. How does Fenno help Veronique at the beginning of Chapter 7?

6. How long were Paul and Maureen married before they had children, and why did it take so long?

7. How was the bookstore doing a year and a half after Ralph and Fenno opened the shop?

8. Why did Mal ask Fenno to be his health proxy?

9. Why did Maureen kill two puppies in Chapter 2?

10. Where did Paul meet his wife?

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