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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. How does Benjamin's fight with Gavin start?
(a) Gavin steals from Benjamin.
(b) Gavin insults Benjamin's mother.
(c) Benjamin gets angry when Gavin insists Benjamin sighed and Benjamin insists he did not.
(d) Benjamin misplaces Gavin's rifle.

2. Where does Jordan's girlfriend Mahira work?
(a) His father's office.
(b) The pharmacy.
(c) Her uncle's deli.
(d) The local YMCA.

3. What is Edward's health problem that concerns his doctors and family after the crash?
(a) He does not want to eat and loses a significant amount of weight.
(b) He has a shooting pain in his arm.
(c) He has terrible insomnia.
(d) He loses his vision periodically.

4. Why does Benjamin think he got shot in the army, at least in part?
(a) He was anguished and sleep deprived over his fight with Gavin.
(b) He was distracted by his mother's death.
(c) He was worried over his financial situation.
(d) He was ashamed he never went to college.

5. Why does Lacey have to call Jane's dentist to ask him for her DNA samples?
(a) To make sure Jane is really dead.
(b) To make sure Edward gets the right kind of dental care.
(c) To try to settle her lawsuit against the airline.
(d) To help crash investigators identify hers and other bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jane like Florida's skirt?

2. Who calls Edward in the hospital in a phone call that takes special arranging?

3. Where does Edward immediately begin sleeping when he moves into his aunt and uncle's house?

4. Who is the woman who runs the NTSB's investigation into the crash?

5. What is the only secret Jordan ever keeps from Eddie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the flight attendant, Veronica, attract so much attention?

2. How does Crispin Cox treat his nurse on the plane in Part I?

3. In Part I, why does Edward begin sleeping in Shay's bedroom every night?

4. What are some of the reasons Bruce Adler decided to homeschool his children?

5. In Part I, what is immediately the most unusual and extraordinary circumstance about the plane crash?

6. What is Crispin Cox thinking about right after he boards the plane in Part I?

7. In Part I, why does Edward feel so strange about his new bedroom being in Lacey's and John's would-be nursery?

8. Why does Linda think that Florida might be a little off-balance when they begin talking on the plane?

9. What is Linda Stollen thinking about when she boards the plane in Newark?

10. What is one of the few things Edward and Lacey do exclusively together in Part II that Edward likes and feels comfortable with?

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