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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 was the name of the uncle who was once medically dead for three minutes, according to Jen's story to Randy?
(a) Colin.
(b) Reginald.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Justin.

2. Her old friend who comes to visit tells Jen that he/she already has a significant other in _____________.
(a) Pasadena.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Alameda.
(d) San Jose.

3. Jen is reminded of the way people avoid looking at those with ____________ when she sees how people look at Wallace.
(a) Injuries.
(b) Children.
(c) Disabilities.
(d) Bruises.

4. Kathleen and Jen discuss the various effects that _________ can have on a person's brain, even destroying it.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Worry.
(d) Drugs.

5. What happens a few years later, though it does not change their relationship? Jen __________ Kathleen.
(a) Moves away from.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Hits.
(d) Seduces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides to come with Jen to the hospital on the day that Wallace is going to be discharged?

2. Who is the person who decides to drive Wallace to his radiation therapy for the next few weeks?

3. Where is the hospital that Megan and Jen are going to in order to see Wallace on his discharge day?

4. When Wallace shows up at Jen's, where does he ask her to take him so that he can find out some news?

5. Jen and Wallace talk about how embarrassing it was to bathe nude in the _____________ together.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the criteria that Jen has in terms of deciding whether or not to take a job that she is offered by another?

2. What does Jen think about the other people in the town that are very paranoid about their lives and their surroundings?

3. What is the exercise called where Jen lies in bed for hours on end each day, according to her conversation with Kathleen?

4. What does Jen think about the idea of scars on a person's face?

5. What happens on the day that Wallace is discharged from the hospital after his surgery?

6. What does Jen's father begin to do as he begins to feel better after the surgery and is healing well?

7. What is the worry that Jen has about being at parties, and what a person might ask her when she is there?

8. What does Colin say in a letter that he sends to Jen during the time of Wallace's recuperation?

9. What happens to Wallace which makes the family begin to question his health again?

10. What does Jen do when she turns on the radio, trying to work out a new feeling she has about the tumor Wallace has?

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