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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summary.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nick notice after the story is over?
(a) The sun is rising.
(b) Everyone is crying.
(c) The afternoon light is waning.
(d) The narrator has his arm around someone else's wife.

2. What reason does the character give for asking for something to eat before dinner?
(a) She/he is drunk and needs to sober up.
(b) She/he is very hungry.
(c) She/he wants to give the hostess something to do.
(d) She/he is getting bored.

3. Where do the old couple move to?
(a) Regular hospital rooms.
(b) The morgue.
(c) The pediatric ward.
(d) They are immediately discharged from the hospital.

4. Why does Terri chastise Mel?
(a) For showing her too much physical affection.
(b) For insulting others in the conversation.
(c) For being insensitive and drinking too much.
(d) For acting childish.

5. Who says that Terri's ex-boyfriend is so inept that he can't even kill himself properly?
(a) Laura.
(b) Terri.
(c) Nick.
(d) Mel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the depression revealed?

2. Which of the characters is clearly an alcoholic?

3. Who claims that abusive behavior is not love?

4. What does Nick do as a sign of romantic love?

5. What does Mel suggest after the story is interrupted?

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