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

2. What months did Quintana spend at the Rusk Institute?
(a) August and September.
(b) July and August.
(c) May, June, July.
(d) June, July, August.

3. What type of a tree did Joan drape colored Christmas lights on in Chapter 20?
(a) Citrus.
(b) Quince.
(c) Ficus.
(d) Dracena.

4. How old was Joan when she despised the book "Leftover Life to Kill"?
(a) 35 years old.
(b) 29 years old.
(c) 31 years old.
(d) 22 years old.

5. How old was Joan when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) 9 years old.
(b) 7 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Quintana, what sandwich did she and Joan share when the plane that was transporting them to New York stopped to refuel?

2. What percent was the stenosis of John's left main and left anterior descending arteries?

3. How was the man to the right of Quintana's bed at UCLA injured?

4. How many cases of sudden death from cardiac arrest typically occurred at home?

5. When Joan awakened at 3:30 one morning, who was being interviewed on TV?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Joan find herself in tears when she was walking to the opening of the Democratic convention?

2. What was John's last birthday present to Joan?

3. Did Joan believe that wild things feel loss?

4. What would John and Joan do after the 1992 Democratic convention?

5. How did Joan wear rings and why?

6. Some people think that their deceased loved one can be seen or heard. Did Joan believe that she could see or hear John?

7. Why did Joan resist the tracheostomy so fiercely?

8. Why did Joan use to tell John her dreams.

9. Describe the dream about the braided belt and what it meant to Joan.

10. What did it mean that post-mortem lividity was present in John's body?

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