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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. Which of Joan's novels used an incident about a woman whose abortion was paid for by the district attorney's office?
(a) Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
(b) Play It As It Lays.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Salvador.
2. Why was Quintana admitted to Milstein Hospital shortly after her release from Beth Israel?
(a) Recurrence of pneumonia.
(b) Blood clots.
(c) A secondary infection.
(d) Recurrence of sepsis.
3. What poet did John's brother Nick read at the funeral?
(a) Lucan.
(b) Ennius.
(c) Horace.
(d) Catullus.
4. How old was Quintana when Joan wrote a book that told about a woman whose abortion was paid for by the district attorney's office?
(a) 3 years old
(b) 2 years old.
(c) 5 years old.
(d) 4 years old.
5. When did Joan first notice what she called the "vortex" effect?
(a) March
(b) December.
(c) January.
(d) February.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Joan begin writing the book, "The Year of Magical Thinking"?
2. After Teresa Heinz Kerry's first husband died, where did she feel a need to go?
3. Where did John take Quintana so Joan could finish her first column for "Life"?
4. What sea creatures did studies show refused to eat after a mate died?
5. What was Quintana's temperature the first time she went to the emergency room?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Quintanna, Joan's and John's daughter in the hospital, when her father died?
2. What promise did Joan make to Quintana that she realized that she would not be able to keep and why?
3. What did Freud say about grief?
4. What happened when Gerry and Quintana arrived in California?
5. How did Joan, Gerry and Tony plan to tell Quintana that her father died?
6. What were the first words that Joan wrote after her husband's death?
7. What incidents indicated that Joan was not thinking clearly?
8. Describe John's funeral.
9. During her reading, what did Joan learn were some means that were used to test a patient's memory and comprehension?
10. What advice about attending funerals did Joan read that was written by Emily Post in her 1922 book of etiquette?
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