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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 explanation does Oliver give his boss about his situation at home?
(a) He tells him a partial truth.
(b) He tells him that Jenny is having an affair.
(c) None.
(d) He tells him the complete truth and breaks down crying.

2. What does Oliver do during that next year?
(a) Joins the Harvard crew team.
(b) Works hard and edits and writes law articles.
(c) Reconciles finally with his father.
(d) Works at a pizza place and goes to school.

3. How could the firm be described where Oliver is to work?
(a) An emphasis on corporate law.
(b) Very oriented towards money-making cases.
(c) Prestigious and civil liberties-oriented.
(d) Ambulance chasers.

4. Why is Oliver leaving the hospital?
(a) He is going to a Catholic church down the street.
(b) He is headed home.
(c) He needs some fresh air.
(d) He hates doctors and wants away from them because they could not save Jenny.

5. What does Jenny say may someday happen?
(a) Jenny will divorce Oliver if he doesn't become nicer to his parents.
(b) Oliver's father may die and Oliver will regret it.
(c) Oliver will have a child that feels about him the way he feels about his father.
(d) Oliver and his father will reconcile.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could the couple's social life be described?

2. To where does Oliver buy airline tickets?

3. What is Oliver's standing in law school and what does it mean?

4. When Oliver encounters his father, what does he tell him?

5. What does Oliver do after his father says he is sorry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver say and do when his father tells him he's sorry?

2. After graduation, where is Oliver ranked in his law class?

3. What does Jenny insist on doing at home and what is the one compromise she allows?

4. What did Oliver do in his second year of law school?

5. What do Oliver and Jenny do when she doesn't get pregnant?

6. When Oliver checks on Jenny one night after dinner what does she tell him and what does he do?

7. Why does the doctor call Oliver into the office and what does he tell Oliver?

8. Where did Oliver and Jenny live in New York and how did Jenny fix it up?

9. How difficult is it for Oliver to keep the truth from Jenny and his boss?

10. What does Oliver tell his father about his request?

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