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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. What do people in the hospital do when somebody dies?
(a) They spray the body and remove it.
(b) They cremate the body.
(c) They bury the body.
(d) They cover the body with a sheet and remove it.

2. When Mitch asked Morrie why so many people always wish they were young again, what did Morrie answer?
(a) That it's a lack of intelligence.
(b) That it's a sign of being immature.
(c) That it's because they are afraid to grow old.
(d) That it's a sign of an unfulfilled life.

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

4. Morrie always embraced aging, because it also means something else. What did Morrie compare aging with?
(a) Death.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Growth.
(d) Ugliness.

5. Why did so many students from Brandeis visit Morrie during his final days?
(a) Because they want the food from the fridge.
(b) Because they want to find out what it is like to die.
(c) Because they truly cared about Morrie and thought he was a special professor.
(d) Because they want to teach him now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mitch finally do before he left Morrie for the last time?

2. According to Morrie, what is the biggest defect humans being have?

3. What did Morrie do more by "The Audiovisual, Part 3" once his body had deteriorated and he was so close to death?

4. According to Morrie, death ends a life. What does it not end?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Morrie's wife Charlotte called Mitch the Monday before the fourteenth Tuesday. Why?

2. When the OJ Simpson verdict was showing on television, what was everybody doing?

3. Why was Morrie initially embarrassed when he couldn't wipe his own behind anymore? What did he do next?

4. What was the bleak truth about Morrie not being able to wipe his own behind anymore by the time of the third Nightline interview?

5. When Mitch looked around Morrie's home, he saw a certain kind of wealth that had nothing to do with money. How had Morrie's house become a very wealthy home after his disease got diagnosed?

6. What did Morrie reply when Mitch asked him whether he was ever afraid of growing old?

7. Morrie could not eat the food that Mitch still brought for him by the tenth Tuesday. Why did Mitch still bring food for Morrie?

8. How do readers know that Brandeis college was a hotbed for cultural activism?

9. Why did Morrie stop eating the food that Mitch brought?

10. On the twelfth Tuesday, Morrie talked about a good friend whom he never forgave and regretted it. What happened back then?

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