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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 new experience does Larry have in Vermont?
(a) Recreation and leisure
(b) Going to church
(c) Coaching baseball
(d) Learning French

2. What disease does Sally have?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Epilepsy
(c) Polio
(d) Cancer

3. What is Charity's plan?
(a) To write a novel
(b) To take French lessons
(c) To have the grandchildren for the summer
(d) To go to the hospital to die while everyone else is at the picnic

4. Who offers Larry a job?
(a) Charity's uncle
(b) Sid's father
(c) Charity's brother
(d) Charity's father

5. Where do Sid, Larry and Sally find Charity?
(a) In bed
(b) In the pool
(c) On the back porch
(d) In her recliner

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sid and Charity agree on?

2. Larry thinks about making order out of __________________________.

3. Where is the family having a picnic?

4. Larry recalls a particular morning in which month?

5. What does Charity say is all she needed to make her death the way she has envisioned it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plans has Charity made for her family for after her death?

2. How does Charity maintain control even though her death is imminent?

3. How does the author use the Adam and Eve metaphor to advance the plot?

4. Why is this chapter the climax of the book?

5. Explain the metaphor of Adam and Eve used throughout the novel.

6. How is Charity able to assert some control over Larry's life while her own husband resists her attempts?

7. How do Sally's memories provide a different perspective about Charity for Hallie?

8. Explain the method that Sally has of categorizing her memories.

9. What happens to the relationship between the Morgans and the Langs during World War II?

10. How is Charity managing her illness?

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