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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 do people in the hospital do when somebody dies?
(a) They cover the body with a sheet and remove it.
(b) They bury the body.
(c) They cremate the body.
(d) They spray the body and remove it.

2. In the Book of Job from the Bible, what does God do to test Job's faith?
(a) He makes him sick.
(b) He takes away everything Job has.
(c) He kills Job.
(d) He gives him good health.

3. On the thirteenth Tuesday, Morrie told Mitch about an amazing feeling he had had the night before. What was the amazing feeling?
(a) Being able to accept people's advise.
(b) Being able to breath again.
(c) Being able to smile again.
(d) Being able to accept death.

4. What does the media make people believe, according to Morrie?
(a) That more is stupid.
(b) That more is sad.
(c) That more is bad.
(d) That more is good.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Janine's profession?

2. According to Morrie, when do you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it?

3. When Morrie was a child, his father would take his evening paper outside and read it. Where would he sit when he read his evening paper?

4. 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?

5. Where did Mitch find Morrie when he was ready to see him on this fourteenth Tuesday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Morrie tell Mitch about family on the fifth Tuesday?

2. How did Mitch realize the funeral was happening on a Tuesday?

3. What were the important issues in life, according to Morrie?

4. Why did Mitch finally cry, this last Tuesday?

5. What do people need to forgive themselves for, according to Morrie?

6. When Mitch looked around Morrie's home, he saw a certain kind of wealth that had nothing to do with money. How had Morrie's house become a very wealthy home after his disease got diagnosed?

7. According to Morrie, who was responsible for the brainwashing taking place all over the country and what is the result?

8. When the OJ Simpson verdict was showing on television, what was everybody doing?

9. Why was Morrie initially embarrassed when he couldn't wipe his own behind anymore? What did he do next?

10. How do readers know that Brandeis college was a hotbed for cultural activism?

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