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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Money.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mitch decided to go back to school. What did he earn a graduate degree in?
(a) Music.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Law.
(d) Journalism.

2. When Mitch was younger, he had a lot of conversations with Morrie. During one of those conversations, Morrie told him that people are pulled in two directions: what they know versus what they feel and what they need versus what they want. What did Morrie answer when Mitch asked him which side wins?
(a) Hate.
(b) The bad side.
(c) The good side.
(d) Love.

3. What did Morrie dread most about the sure progression of his disease?
(a) That he could not dance anymore.
(b) That people would think he was weak.
(c) That people would pity him.
(d) That some day somebody would have to wipe his backside.

4. Why did Morrie not want to be in his thirties anymore?
(a) Because he thought people in their thirties were stupid.
(b) Because he liked to be old.
(c) Because he didn't like it when he was in his thirties.
(d) Because his time to be in his thirties had come and gone.

5. Morrie told Ted Koppel that there was something you don't need between good, loving friends. What is not needed to feel the love between one and another?
(a) Food.
(b) Hugs.
(c) Music.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Morrie's health began deteriorating?

2. In "The Curriculum", the author describes the last class of somebody's life. Whose life?

3. Why did Nightline and Ted Koppel return to interview Morrie?

4. In the summer of which year did Morrie learn he is dying?

5. On the sixth Tuesday, Morrie's health was deteriorating fast and he talked to Mitch about his scariest feelings. What was he scared of at that point?

(see the answer key)

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