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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. When were the first sealed caskets made?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1940s.

2. Approximately what percentage of Americans move at any given time?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty.

3. What was the first name of the girl Lynch met and fell in love with?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Joanne.
(c) Johanna.
(d) Joannie.

4. What kind of car did the two teachers commit suicide in?
(a) Chrysler.
(b) Ford.
(c) Oldsmobile.
(d) Dodge.

5. With what did the cuckolded husband kill himself in Chapter 10?
(a) An electric can opener.
(b) A butcher knife.
(c) An electric carving knife.
(d) A chainsaw.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Jack Kevorkian assist in his first suicide?

2. Where did Lynch meet Sweeney?

3. How many days was Reader waked?

4. In what Irish county was Sweeney born?

5. How much did the simple cardboard box cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lynch see as the advantage of being at the midpoint of one's life?

2. How do Lynch and his wife differ in their views of Milford as they walk through town in Chapter 7?

3. How does Lynch view the current state of debate over abortion?

4. What lesson did Lynch want to teach Sweeney with his story of the man killed by the falling vehicle at the scrap metal yard?

5. How does Lynch describe people's different approaches to living life at the end of Chapter 8 and which approach did Sweeney take?

6. Why did Lynch suggest February as a good month for his death and burial?

7. How did Lynch react to the body of the young man who shot himself in Chapter 9?

8. What characteristic of "successful" suicides did Lynch say he admired?

9. Why did authors such as Jessica Mitford attack the funeral industry?

10. Why did Janet Adkins ask Jack Kevorkian to assist in her suicide?

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