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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie did Cathy watch by herself the first night Kelly was home?

2. What was Kelly's best friend's name?

3. What hours was Alan in session at Magee?

4. How many steps were there up to the cabin?

5. How long after Alan left did Cathy hear a boat returning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems did the Crimmins family have with the owners of the Canadian cabin?

2. What did Cathy think when a guy who had been injured in a motorcycle accident talked to Alan before they left for a Phillies game?

3. Why was Alan given a feeding tube?

4. Why did doctors not know if Alan would ever walk again?

5. What areas of the body are governed by the frontal lobes?

6. What were some physical, cognitive, and behavior symptoms that might be experienced by someone with a severe brain injury?

7. What was a Vail bed?

8. Describe Cathy's experience spoon-feeding Alan.

9. How did a cattle farmer's daughter sustain a brain injury?

10. What type of a relationship did Kelly have with Sarah and Joanne Babaian?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss reduplicative paramnesia and how it affected Alan and other TBI sufferers.

Essay Topic 2

Alan kicked Kelly in a movie theater when she made him angry. Discuss how Alan treated Kelly.

Essay Topic 3

Cathy described their vacation to Canada as the "Vacation from Hell." Discuss why the vacation was not the relaxing time the family had envisioned.

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