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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. At what age did Lynch's mother die?
(a) 62.
(b) 60.
(c) 65.
(d) 72.
2. What did Uncle Eddie need help coming up with as he was starting his suicide cleanup business?
(a) An easy to remember 800 number.
(b) A snappy Yellow Pages ad.
(c) Brochures.
(d) A newspaper ad.
3. What did Kevorkian's attorney suggest for the doctor?
(a) A Nobel Prize.
(b) A position as Surgeon General.
(c) A Medal of Honor.
(d) A political career.
4. What was the look on the face of the man killed by the falling car?
(a) Fright.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Horror.
(d) Serenity.
5. In what year did John Hillenbrand purchase the Batesville Coffin Company?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1910.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Reader's favorite holiday?
2. What poet is quoted at the beginning of "Tract"?
3. In what decade of life did most of the Lynch men die?
4. What seafood dish did Lynch refer to at the end of Chapter 8?
5. To what animal did Lynch allude in making his analogy about living at the midpoint?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Matthew Sweeney's personality.
2. How do Lynch and his wife differ in their views of Milford as they walk through town in Chapter 7?
3. How did Lynch react to the body of the young man who shot himself in Chapter 9?
4. Why have more and more Americans opted for cremation, according to Lynch?
5. How did the funeral processions through town change when the Oak Grove bridge collapsed?
6. Why did Janet Adkins ask Jack Kevorkian to assist in her suicide?
7. How does Lynch view a world in which certain deaths are acceptable (abortion, war, capital punishment)?
8. Why did Lynch suggest February as a good month for his death and burial?
9. How do most people view undertakers, according to Lynch?
10. What lesson did Lynch want to teach Sweeney with his story of the man killed by the falling vehicle at the scrap metal yard?
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