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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How big was the author's mother's tumor?
(a) The size of a kiwi.
(b) The size of a grapefruit.
(c) The size of an apple.
(d) The size of a cherry.

2. What was included in the Pink Flamingos chapter?
(a) Letters.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Maps.
(d) Graphs.

3. How does the author's brother get out of church one day?
(a) He has to help with a flood.
(b) He is called to work.
(c) His sister asks for his help.
(d) His mother gets very ill.

4. What chance of survival did Diane have during radiation?
(a) 25%
(b) 30%
(c) 40%
(d) 50%

5. How long did it take the author to get from her house to the airport?
(a) 25 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 1 hour.

6. What did Terry say should be used to catch the outlaw in Chapter 8?
(a) A lasso.
(b) A taser.
(c) A gun.
(d) A noose.

7. Why was the author surprised when her mother agreed to use chemotherapy?
(a) She had talked her sister out of it.
(b) She was afraid of it.
(c) She didn't believe in it before.
(d) She had been refusing it.

8. Where did Diane go swimming while she was still sick?
(a) Lake Powell.
(b) The Great Salt Lake.
(c) Bear Lake.
(d) Utah Lake.

9. What saved the Mormon pioneers when their wheat fields were being destroyed?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Gulls.
(d) Rain.

10. What was the third option for when the lake exceeded the limits?
(a) Pump the water.
(b) Store the water.
(c) Breach the causeway.
(d) Diking the water.

11. What caused the author's mother to use chemotherapy?
(a) She had seen her sister use it.
(b) She had much to live for.
(c) She had a dream about it.
(d) She believed in her doctor.

12. Who wrote "God Sees the Truth but Waits"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

13. What was Diane always at one with according to her daughter?
(a) Her soul.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Pain.

14. In what season do the Great Salt Lake levels rise?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

15. Who originally had the idea to pump the lake's water?
(a) John Taylor.
(b) Brigham Young.
(c) Wilford Woodfruff.
(d) Joseph Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised the men at Antelope Island about Terry?

2. Which of these is a title Terry used for the Great Salt Lake?

3. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?

4. What happened to Diane Dixon Tempest in 1971?

5. What were all the chapters in this first section named after?

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