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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 is Jean's favorite smell at the promenade by the beach?
(a) Steak.
(b) Wet sand.
(c) Sun screen.
(d) French Fries.

2. What is wrong with Jean's left ear?
(a) It is deaf.
(b) It is hard of hearing.
(c) It doesn't tune into high pitches.
(d) It distorts sound of people far away.

3. What did it take a year for Jean to be ready to write about?
(a) His affair.
(b) His stroke.
(c) His family.
(d) His beliefs.

4. What holiday is Jean writing about when he is being wheeled down the hall?
(a) Valentine's Day.
(b) Father's Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving.

5. What does Jean like to listen to most?
(a) Music.
(b) His thoughts.
(c) Pages of a book turning.
(d) Birds chirping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Jean play with his son?

2. What ceases to be as comforting to Jean a year after his stroke?

3. What does Jean compare himself to in his relationships with women?

4. What does Jean buy for the woman he took on his trip?

5. What is Jean's complaint about the beach when he goes there with his friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Olivier, and what was he good at?

2. What is Jean's favorite thing to listen to when he is alone?

3. What makes Jean depressed when he thinks about his former job and co-workers?

4. What does Jean plan to do to keep in touch with his friends?

5. What is wrong with Jean's hearing?

6. What did Jean do most of the time while he was on his trip with Josephine?

7. What day of the week does Jean dread the most, and why?

8. What does Jean think about as Claude reads Jean the book he has been writing?

9. How does Jean think he will die?

10. Why does Jean feel he does not belong at the hospital?

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