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What is the title of the last class that professor Morrie Schwartz teaches?

What is the title of the last class that professor Morrie Schwartz teaches? How many students are in this last class? What event substitutes for graduation in the last class? What's the first sign that Morrie Schwartz is dying? What is he dying of?

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What is the title of the last class that professor Morrie Schwartz teaches?

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  1. What is the title of the last class that professor Morrie Schwartz teaches? How many students are in this last class? What event substitutes for graduation in the last class? What's the first sign that Morrie Schwartz is dying? What is he dying of? The author, Mitch Albom, compares Morrie Schartz's disease to a candle. What does he mean? On the day he graduates, Mitch Albom promises to keep in touch with his old professor. Evaluate how successfully he keeps his promise. What does he do after graduation? How does Mitch Albom re-establish contact with his old professor? Pg 1 - 25

  2. How would you describe Mitch's first visit with Morrie after so many years? • What subject begins their last class together? • What do you think it is that first attracts Mitch to Morrie? • What sorts of things does Morrie want to know about Mitch when they meet again after 16 years? • Morrie does not fear death. Why not? • Discuss what Morrie means by the tension of opposites. • Describe the effect that Mitch's visit with Morrie has on his attitude and his daily life. • Speculate on why Mitch was able to talk so easily with Morrie when he was a college student. • Why does Morrie bother to keep up with the news? • According to Morrie, what is the most important thing in life? Pg. 25 - 54

  3. What event in Detroit has provided Mitch with a context for his Tuesday visits with Morrie? • What event on Mitch's second visit reminds him that time is running out and he has to "do something"? • Mitch begins bringing a tape recorder to his visits with Morrie. Explain why Mitch says this is important (say something more significant than "So he can remember his friend."). • What does Morrie say won't happen automatically? • What does Morrie say he will do with his friend when he can't talk and the friend can't hear? • Describe some aspect of Morrie's early life and comment on how it made him into the person he became. • What event saved Morrie as a young boy? Pg. 54 - 78

  4. In what context did Morrie quote, “Love each other or perish”? What did he mean by this quote? • Why are children important to Morrie? Does he recommend them to everyone? • Mitch reveals why he is drawn to Morrie. What does this say about Mitch’s relationship with his brother? • Why did Charlotte, Morrie’s wife, intercept Mitch on his sixth Tuesday? What does she say Mitch brings to Morrie each week? • How does Morrie say that he is now dealing with his inevitable death? • Explain one of the most important quotes of the book, “When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” • How does Morrie want to die? • Why does Morrie want to be reincarnated as a gazelle? What would you want to be if reincarnation is real? Pg. 78 -

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