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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mark's pain stem from?
(a) Understanding what is happening to Brian.
(b) Jealousy over Brian's feelings for Beverly.
(c) Realizing his salvation is dying.
(d) Watching the dying process daily.

2. What does Maggie realize Joe needs from her?
(a) Love.
(b) Support.
(c) Anger.
(d) Honesty.

3. What does Brian try to incorporate into the process of grieving?
(a) Opening himself to all experiences.
(b) Spritual aspects of dying.
(c) Acceptance of others pain.
(d) Realization that death comes to all.

4. How does Agnes feel about the ideas the interviewer has presented?
(a) She is appalled.
(b) She is ashamed.
(c) She is reflective.
(d) She is surprised.

5. How did Agnes describe Felicity after her husband died?
(a) Strong.
(b) Ambivilant.
(c) Weak.
(d) Devastated.

6. How does her feeling change?
(a) She gets lost in sadness.
(b) She is overwhelmed.
(c) She becomes more confused.
(d) She becomes angry.

7. What does the interviewer suggest is keeping Agnes alive?
(a) Lies.
(b) Her senility.
(c) False hope.
(d) The hospital.

8. Who remains faithful to Brian until the end?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Steve.
(c) Mark.
(d) Beverly.

9. Where had Claire gone?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Texas.
(c) Mexico.
(d) California.

10. What does Felicity's mental state keep her in?
(a) A realization of her disease.
(b) A fantasyland where she is not ill.
(c) A calm and peacful existance.
(d) A perpetual state of memory.

11. Why does Maggie agree to enter the cottage for the first time?
(a) She has accepted Joe's imminent death.
(b) She needs to go inside with him.
(c) She knows that it is what Joe wants.
(d) She wants to see her son.

12. How does Maggie feel that prevents her from going into the cottage?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Anger.

13. It could be said that Joe and Felicity are further along in the acceptance of their disease than which of the following characters?
(a) Brian.
(b) Their families.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Beverly and Mark.

14. How long was Claire gone before Felicity and Agnes knew what happened to her?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) A year.
(d) Five years.

15. Why does Mark say that Beverly has such an elevated position on the topic of the dying process?
(a) She hasn't talked with the doctors yet.
(b) Because she doesn't really understand it.
(c) She left Brian.
(d) Because she's not there every day watching it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Agnes believe that what she is doing is wrong?

2. How does Mark feel about the thought of Brian leaving?

3. What happened to Claire?

4. What does Brian say that no one expects?

5. What does Agnes believe she has provided for Felicity?

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