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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Euripedes' plays did Joan feel that she must reread?

3. Where did John graduate from college?

4. What time did the Emergency Medical Services receive the call to come to John's and Joan's apartment?

5. What restaurant would John and Joan go to for breakfast after a dentist appointment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did Joan believe that wild things feel loss?

2. What comments about their wedding day did Joan find that John had written in 1990?

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

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

5. Over the years, what would Dominique do with Quintana?

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

7. What arrangements were made to transfer Quintana from UCLA to New York University Hospital in New York?

8. Why did Joan resist the tracheostomy so fiercely?

9. What little things could Joan do for Quintana when she was at Rusk Institute?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the overall mood of the book and give examples of the change in mood from the beginning of the novel to the end.

Essay Topic 2

Compare how death was regarded before and after the 1930's with when Joan was growing up.

Essay Topic 3

When Joan went to UCLA to be with Quintana, she expected that Los Angeles would be the place most likely to trigger the vortex effect. Discuss why Los Angeles was the place most likely to trigger the vortex effect and how Joan avoided triggering this effect.

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