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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 kind of sandwich does Ellen eat after the trees are decorated?
(a) Egg salad
(b) Peanut butter and jelly
(c) Ham and cheese
(d) Roast beef

2. What does Kate say her body looks like?
(a) A flabby fat person
(b) A baby's
(c) A rotten peach
(d) A fence post

3. What movie does Ellen watch the evening she's home alone?
(a) Home Alone II
(b) True Lies
(c) All About Eve
(d) American Pie

4. How long does Mrs. Forburg say she was married?
(a) Eight years
(b) Eighteen years
(c) Twelve years
(d) Two years

5. What does Ellen find taped to the door of her father's office?
(a) A note to George
(b) A sign up sheet for conferences
(c) An envelope with Ellen's name
(d) A note with a phone number

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ellen spend the night after Kate asks Ellen to help end her suffering?

2. What does Kate eat on the last afternoon of her life?

3. What does Ellen give her mother for Christmas?

4. Why does Jeff enter the back door of Mrs. Forburg's house?

5. What happened to Chris's hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ellen say to Mrs. Duane when she says that she's been meaning to visit Kate?

2. Who is Chris and what happens between Chris and Ellen?

3. What information is presented about Ellen's paternal grandparents.

4. What is Ellen's reaction when Jeff makes fun of her for baking cookies and why does she react this way?

5. What does Teresa say when Ellen asks if she's curious as to why George is never home?

6. What is Ellen doing that causes the newspaper stories to say that Ellen was "fleeing?"

7. What are Ellen's theories about why Mrs. Duane and Kate don't talk about men while they're having lunch together?

8. What is the memory Ellen has about a tree lighting event the first year her mother was one of the Minnies?

9. What does Ellen say when Jeff asks if hallucinations are a side-effect of Kate's medication?

10. What is the conversation Ellen and Kate have when Hally gives Kate the photo of her newborn baby?

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