1. When the air ambulance that was to transport Quintana had mechanical difficulties, where did it land?
(a) Tucson.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Denver.
(d) Colorado Springs.

2. When John's funeral took place, how many months had it been since Quintana's wedding?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 3 months.

3. What poet did John's brother Nick read at the funeral?
(a) Lucan.
(b) Catullus.
(c) Ennius.
(d) Horace.

4. Who wrote, "Time is the school in which we learn"?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Ezra Pound.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) Delmore Schwartz.

5. Who wrote "A Grief Observed"?
(a) Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
(b) H. Norman Wright.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Martha Whitmore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Protestant denomination did Joan say used these words in a litany, "as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end"?

2. What year was it when John and Joan were at a red light and saw the driver suddenly slump over his steering wheel?

3. How old was Joan when Quintana was three years old?

4. Where was the male patient from who lay to the left of Quintana's bed at UCLA?

5. Who said that self-pity is "our worst enemy"?

(see the answer key)

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