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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. Dana is a part-time _____________ student.
(a) Art.
(b) Biology.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

2. Jo recalls that Eli Mayhew was the only person in the house who studied _________________.
(a) Art.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Science.

3. Which one of the residents of the group house is a lawyer?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Sara.
(c) Dana.
(d) Eli.

4. Jo's twin daughters are Nora and _________________.
(a) Catherine.
(b) Cass.
(c) Camille.
(d) Celeste.

5. How much time passes between Jo and Daniel seeing each other at the airport and when they speak again?
(a) A week.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Three days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jo rarely go?

2. What is Jo's last name?

3. What request of the housemates' do Dana's sisters deny?

4. What is one of the things that the interviewer tells Licia she can expect to see in the group house?

5. Whom do the police first question about Dana's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jo get her start in veterinary medicine?

2. Explain Jo's secretive life in Cambridge in 1968.

3. What choice does Eli make for his dog and for himself in Jo's office?

4. Why is marrying Daniel quite opposite from the life she had been living in the group house?

5. How well does Licia adapt to living in the group house?

6. What are some of the events that the author covers during a flashback of Jo's life?

7. What are the circumstances in which Jo sees Eli again after so many years?

8. What happens to the dynamics in the group house after Dana's death?

9. Why does Licia seem to fit in so well with the group members who seem to have no real plans?

10. What is the premise of WHILE I WAS GONE?

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