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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 did Morrie call the weekly conversations between him and Mitch?
(a) Their last thesis together.
(b) Their last time together.
(c) Their highlight of the week.
(d) Their proof of friendship.

2. Mitch asked what Morrie would do if he was granted one more perfectly healthy day. What would Morrie have done?
(a) He would sleep all day.
(b) He would try to change the world.
(c) He would do something he always wanted to do and never did before.
(d) The things he would normally do when he was still healthy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the ninth Tuesday, Morrie's condition was rapidly deteriorating, but he had a new saying. What was his new saying?

2. On this fifth Tuesday, what did Morrie say is the foundation of everything?

3. What was the topic for the tenth Tuesday meeting?

4. When Mitch asked Morrie why so many people always wish they were young again, what did Morrie answer?

5. What does Charlotte tell Mitch when she called him the Monday before his fourteenth visit with Morrie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Morrie's family do when he lapsed into a coma?

2. Who belongs to Mitch's family?

3. On the eleventh Tuesday, Mitch smacked Morrie on his back. Why did he do that?

4. Morrie could not eat the food that Mitch still brought for him by the tenth Tuesday. Why did Mitch still bring food for Morrie?

5. Why did Morrie stop eating the food that Mitch brought?

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

7. One of Morrie's first jobs was at a mental institution outside of Washington D.C. What did he do there?

8. In the chapter "The Sixth Tuesday", one of Morrie's coughing spells is described in detail. What happened and how did Mitch react?

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

10. What was the bleak truth about Morrie not being able to wipe his own behind anymore by the time of the third Nightline interview?

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