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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the interview, Koppel asked if there was anything Morrie would like to say to the millions of people watching. What did Morrie tell them?
(a) To talk to one another.
(b) To hug each other.
(c) To love one another.
(d) To hate one another.

2. On the sixth Tuesday, Mitch discovered that Morrie's fridge is full of food that he brought for his professor. Why did Morrie not eat the food Mitch brought?
(a) Because he didn't like the food Mitch brought.
(b) Because he wanted to hurt Mitch's feelings.
(c) Because he could not chew his food anymore.
(d) Because he wasn't hungry.

3. On what day did Morrie's funeral take place?
(a) On a Monday.
(b) On a Tuesday.
(c) On a Saturday.
(d) On a Sunday.

4. On this thirteenth Tuesday, what did Morrie compare his body with?
(a) A shell.
(b) A grave.
(c) A box.
(d) An animal.

5. Morrie learned to enjoy being dependent and being treated by others. What did he compare this feeling to?
(a) He felt like a teenager again.
(b) He felt like an adult.
(c) He felt like a baby again.
(d) He felt healthy again.

6. According to Morrie, when do you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it?
(a) When you're surrounded by people who say "Let's be friends."
(b) When you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,'
(c) When you're surrounded by people who say "I want to share."
(d) When you're surrounded by people who say "I give you everything you want."

7. What did Morrie wish he had done more during his life?
(a) Talk to people.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Dance.
(d) Publish books.

8. Where did Mitch find Morrie when he was ready to see him on this fourteenth Tuesday?
(a) In his bed.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In his chair.
(d) On the toilet.

9. Mitch asked what Morrie would do if he was granted one more perfectly healthy day. What would Morrie have done?
(a) He would try to change the world.
(b) The things he would normally do when he was still healthy.
(c) He would sleep all day.
(d) He would do something he always wanted to do and never did before.

10. On the eighth Tuesday, Morrie and Mitch talked about money and values. What is, according to Morrie, the result of people valuing the wrong thing?
(a) They lead disillusioned lives.
(b) They are happy.
(c) They lead rich lives.
(d) The don't care about anything.

11. Mitch has a younger brother who got sick. What kind of disease did his brother have?
(a) Aids.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Lou Gehrig's disease.
(d) Alzheimers disease.

12. What did Morrie do more by "The Audiovisual, Part 3" once his body had deteriorated and he was so close to death?
(a) Read mail.
(b) Watch the news.
(c) Listen to music.
(d) Read the paper.

13. What did Mitch finally do before he left Morrie for the last time?
(a) He ate.
(b) He cried.
(c) He smiled.
(d) He wiped the professor's behind.

14. On the eleventh Tuesday, what did Morrie claim is a major problem in society?
(a) That people are quicker to see their similarities than their differences.
(b) That people are quicker to see their differences than their similarities.
(c) That people are quicker to see their mistakes than their accomplishments.
(d) That people are quicker to see their gains than their losses.

15. Morrie began teaching at Brandeis in the late 1950's. There, the sociology department was heavily involved in which movement?
(a) The antipolitics movement.
(b) The communist movement.
(c) The friendship movement.
(d) The antiwar movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mitch still bring food for Morrie on the fourteenth Tuesday?

2. When did Morrie stop breathing?

3. During the third interview, Morrie told Ted Koppel that the disease could have his body, but what was the disease not allowed to get?

4. When Mitch visited Morrie the fourteenth Tuesday, how did the nurse feel?

5. When Ted Koppel asked Morrie about his previous comments about someone having to wipe his backside for him, what did he get instead of humor?

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