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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 does Allison do for Will after his fall?
(a) She takes care of him.
(b) She calls the doctor.
(c) She goes to find help.
(d) She calls his daughter.

2. What happens to Will after he gets cleaned up and heads out in his car again?
(a) He gets lost.
(b) He drives to Georgia.
(c) He ends up driving back to the greenhouse.
(d) He wrecks his car.

3. What does Will want to do when he leaves the country club parking lot?
(a) Go home to bathe and shave.
(b) Go get his golf clubs.
(c) Go back to Allison.
(d) Take his guns out on the mountain to shoot.

4. How many sleeping pills a day does Will allow himself to take?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

5. Which of the following is NOT a trip that Will remembers taking with his wife?
(a) Going shopping in town.
(b) Going to see plays in Raleigh.
(c) To Asheville to see her attorneys.
(d) To Charlotte, Chapel Hill, and Durham for games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete the quote, "Everybody thinks that there are only two things: war which is a kind of life in death, and peace which is ______."

2. Whose deathbed quote comes to Will's mind as he looks at himself in the Mercedes rearview mirror?

3. What object belonging to his wife does Will find in his car?

4. What does Allison tell Will she never wants to do?

5. What does Will find Mr. Lionel Eberhart doing at the nursing home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Kitty tell Will about her family when they talk in the parking lot of the country club?

2. How does Allison find Will?

3. What plan do Allison and Will make for their futures?

4. What forces Will to leave the cave?

5. What skills do the three old guys who Will befriends in the convalescent home possess?

6. What happened to the tiger skeleton that used to be in the cave?

7. What does Allison enjoy about taking care of Will that makes her think she should nurse comatose patients?

8. What is the first thing Kitty says after Will recognizes her when she wakes him up in his car in the parking lot?

9. What happens in the secret room that Jack Curl shows Will at the convalescent home?

10. What does Will dream that the country club becomes in the future while he is sleeping in his car?

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