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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is A able to see herself and her life in Act 2, Part 4?
(a) Objectively.
(b) With broken memories.
(c) In limited detail.
(d) With emotion.

2. According to A, what is possible in the final moment of life?
(a) It is possible to conquer a fear of death.
(b) It is possible to stop.
(c) It is possible to forgive those who have hurt her.
(d) It is possible to reconcile with B and C.

3. What does C ask A and B regarding A's accident?
(a) If the medical bills were very high.
(b) Who took care of A's son while she was bedridden.
(c) If they got any money out of it.
(d) Whether they got to shoot the horse.

4. Why did A's son come to see her for the first time after leaving?
(a) A's husband died.
(b) A had a heart attack.
(c) The son needed a place to stay.
(d) A was terminally ill.

5. According to Act 2, Part 2, why do men cheat?
(a) Because their significant other isn't fulfilling their needs.
(b) Because they need variety.
(c) Because they are lonely.
(d) Because they are men.

6. In Act 2, Part 1, C tells B that it is hard to consider what?
(a) Losing A.
(b) Terminal illness.
(c) Death.
(d) Dying alone.

7. What do B and C see when they walk in at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) They see an empty bed, and they are alarmed because they don't know where A is.
(b) They see that A has been covered with a sheet, and they think she is dead.
(c) They see that there has been no change in A's condition.
(d) They see The Boy hovering by his mother's bedside.

8. How does C meet the young man she describes at the end of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) He comes over to meet her sister.
(b) She runs into him at a party.
(c) She dances with him.
(d) He delivers a package to her house.

9. What does C sit down to write in Act 2, Part 1?
(a) A letter to her fiancee.
(b) A living will.
(c) A note for A's doctor.
(d) An outline of A's finances for when she passes away.

10. How did C and Sis make a living, according to C?
(a) They cleaned houses.
(b) They were human mannequins.
(c) They dated rich men who paid for their necessities.
(d) They prosituted themselves.

11. Why does A believe that old age is the best time of life?
(a) It is a time when you don't have to work a steady job anymore.
(b) It is when you can stop and let go of everything in the past.
(c) It is a time when the people you used to care for care for you instead.
(d) It is a time when you don't have to take care of anyone else.

12. What happens at the end of Act 2, Part 2?
(a) B leaves.
(b) The Boy walks into the room.
(c) C leaves.
(d) A dies.

13. What does C want A and B to tell her, in Act 2, Part 4?
(a) What her relationship with her husband will be like.
(b) What A's son did that led to the distance between them.
(c) The happy times to come for her.
(d) What will happen to C in the next few years.

14. What does A struggle to remember about her father in Act 2, Part 2?
(a) What he looked like.
(b) What his voice sounded like.
(c) How he died.
(d) What song he used to sing to her.

15. How did A's father-in-law feel about her?
(a) He never spoke to her.
(b) He liked her.
(c) He was civil to her.
(d) He disliked her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A hope for regarding her death?

2. C wonders, in Act 2, Part 4, if what ended with her?

3. According to A and B's conversation at the end of Act 2, Part 2, what made A's father-in-law happy?

4. How did A's mother react when A's father died?

5. What is C and B's relationship to A, as it is revealed in Act 2, Part 1?

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