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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the teachers at Brandeis encourage the students to do in the late 1950's?
(a) To be lazy.
(b) To be hippies.
(c) To study harder.
(d) To become active.

2. What was the topic for the tenth Tuesday meeting?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Friendship.

3. According to Morrie, what is the biggest defect humans being have?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Poorness.
(d) Shortsightedness.

4. On the tenth Tuesday, another person was involved in the conversation. Who?
(a) Mitch's brother.
(b) Mitch's wife.
(c) Morrie's wife.
(d) Morrie's son.

5. Morrie learned to enjoy being dependent and being treated by others. What did he compare this feeling to?
(a) He felt like a baby again.
(b) He felt like an adult.
(c) He felt healthy again.
(d) He felt like a teenager again.

6. Why did Morrie still want to hear about other people's problems, even though he was dying?
(a) Because that was what made him feel intelligent.
(b) Because that's what made him feel alive.
(c) Because he liked to hear about other people's problems.
(d) Because he wanted to solve all the problems in the world.

7. At one point on this sixth Tuesday, Morrie was half choking. What did Mitch do to save his professor?
(a) He called a doctor.
(b) He hugged Morrie.
(c) He smacked Morrie on the back.
(d) He called for Charlotte.

8. Morrie began teaching at Brandeis in the late 1950's. There, the sociology department was heavily involved in which movement?
(a) The antiwar movement.
(b) The communist movement.
(c) The antipolitics movement.
(d) The friendship movement.

9. According to Morrie, death ends a life. What does it not end?
(a) An adventure.
(b) A relationship.
(c) A disease.
(d) A fortune.

10. What is the only new thing that had been added to Morrie's study on the eighth Tuesday visit?
(a) A fridge.
(b) Some furniture.
(c) Medical equipment.
(d) Friends.

11. Morrie's disease was progressing and Mitch had to touch Morrie more and more to adjust the microphone. How did Morrie feel about that physical contact?
(a) He didn't think anything about it.
(b) He enjoyed it.
(c) He hated it.
(d) He was embarrassed.

12. According to Morrie, what allows a person to be on the same level as everyone else?
(a) Money.
(b) An open house.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) An open heart.

13. What did Morrie call Mitch on this final Tuesday?
(a) His dear friend.
(b) His dear visitor.
(c) His dear son.
(d) His dear student.

14. In Chapter Nineteen, Mitch tries to call his brother. Where does his brother live?
(a) Canada.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

15. What does Charlotte tell Mitch when she called him the Monday before his fourteenth visit with Morrie?
(a) That she didn't want him to come visit.
(b) That Morrie didn't want to see him anymore.
(c) That Morrie was very weak.
(d) That Morrie died.

Short Answer Questions

1. On this thirteenth Tuesday, what did Morrie compare his body with?

2. Who gathered at Morrie's bedside the days before he died?

3. What happened to Morrie two days before he died?

4. Why did so many students from Brandeis visit Morrie during his final days?

5. One of Morrie's first jobs was in a mental institution where he was supposed to just observe. Instead of just observing, what did he do?

(see the answer keys)

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