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WorksheetsTuesdays With Morrie Test
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 28mins
Morrie was a professor of what?
Biology
Sociology
Soceolgy
Chemistry
Morrie’s favorite hobby?
Baseball
Basketball
Dancing
Cooking
What was Mitch’s professional occupation (job)?
A columnist for the Detroit Free Press
A columnist for the Chicago Free Press
A columnist for the New Jersey Free Press
A columnist for the New York Times
Mitch surrendered to failure when he gave up his passion for __________________
Music
Cooking
Teaching
Writing
Mitch played which instrument when he was young?
The piano
The cello
The flute
The guitar
-_____________ (the television show, not the anchor) conducted a series of interviews with Morrie
Ted Koppel
Nightline
Steve Jobs
Carl Azuz
-When Mitch was in college, what did he do to “look older”. Mitch wore old gray sweatshirts, boxed in a local gym, walked around with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, and he drove a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up to look older when he was in college.
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Maybe Click Here, I don't care what you do.
-What was Mitch’s thesis topic at Brandeis?
About how football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses.
About how basketball in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses.
About how golf in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses.
About how baseball in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses.
How did Morrie hear of his mother’s death?
A telegram came from the hospital when more was eight years old. Morrie had to read it out loud because his father couldn’t read in English.
A telegram came from the hospital when more was eight years old. The teacher read it to him and the class out loud.
A telegram came from the hospital when more was eight years old. The teacher read it to him in the hall.
A telegram came from the hospital when more was eight years old. Morrie father read it out loud to Morrie
What things does Mitch bring every week he comes to see Morrie?
Food, and a sony tape recorder, and a journal
Food, and a microsoft tape recorder, and a journal
Only a sony tape recorder
None of the above
If given the chance, Morrie would like to be reincarnated as a __________
Cheetah
Swan
Gazelle
Cow
Peter, Mitch’s brother, suffers from which type of cancer (hint: same as their uncle did)
Pancreatic cancer
Colon cancer
Lung cancer
Brain cancer
The acronym ALS stands for
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
All Losers Suck
Always Lou Sickness
Always Like Sisters
What gift did Mitch give Morrie when Mitch graduated from Brandeis?
A briefcase with Morrie’s initials on the front.
A briefcase with Mitch's initials on the front.
A framed picture of the two of the in funny outfits
A nice letter
What is the reason Mitch surrendered to the corporate world?
He thought he could control it and because work was sensible and responsive, unlike his real life.
He thought he could get more money and look cooler the harder he worked
He thought he get get a nicer wife the harder he worked
His uncle died.
Before Morrie has his first interview with Ted Koppel, Morrie did what?
He checked Ted Koppel out by asking him questions like “tell me something close to your heart”, and “now tell me something about your faith”
He asked Keppel if he was married
He asked Koppel to help him use the restroom
He asked Koppel to leave
Morrie admits that he has had thought of Ted as a what?
"A narcissist"
"A bully"
"A jerk"
"A weirdo"
-Mitch nicknames Morrie what?
Boss
Coach
Brother
Teacher
Morrie gave all of his students an A one semester because
he and the other professors learned that if the students did not maintain a certain grade point average the student could lose their deferment and be drafted, so Morrie gave them all A’s to help them keep their grade point average high.
He wanted them to graduate
He wanted them to get drafted and be out of his hands
He didn't want to see them
-Morrie refers to “tension of opposites” and means what?
Tension of opposites means you want to do one thing but you are bound to do something else but love always wins.
Tension of opposites means you can't do anything
Tension of opposites means you have to do something
Tension of opposites means if you don't do something you're dead
Why is Mitch unable to work?
The union leaders at his work were going on strike.
Morrie told him not to.
Mitch was sick
Mitch was going on strike
-Morrie tells Mitch he must create his own:
His own culture.
His own family
His own NBA team
His own restaurant with the food he brings Morrie one day.
-Who is Morrie’s favorite poet?
W.H. Auden
Shakespear
Gandhi
W. H. Aden
-Morrie continually emphasizes what?
Love is more important than money and his job
He needs a life
He needs to bring his wife
He needs a new job that pays better
Symbolically, ___________ is compared to the deterioration of Morrie’s body.
A hibiscus plant
A candle
A flower
A mountain
- Pancreatic cancer is what Mitch’s _____________ and _____________ had/have.
Brother, Uncle
Uncle, Sister
Sister, Brother
Brother, Cousin
- Mitch and Morrie discuss what on the seventh Tuesday together?
The fear of aging.
The fear of dying
The fear of having kids
The fear of being murdered
- What does Charlotte do for a living?
Charlotte is a professor at M.I.T.
Charlotte is a teacher at a grade school
Charlotte is a homecare supporter
Charlotte is a funeral preparer
