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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Lucy not accustomed to seeing her parents?
(a) Worried about her.
(b) Worried about the money they will need to spend on her surgeries.
(c) So sure of the decisions they need to make.
(d) Confering with each other and deferring to authority.

2. What does Lucy say begins to revive her?
(a) The chemo.
(b) The love of friends and family.
(c) The smell of the liquefied food.
(d) The nutrients in the food.

3. When does Lucy miss a treatment?
(a) When she gets tetanus.
(b) When she gets pneumonia again.
(c) When she pretends to faint.
(d) Her blood work is off.

4. Who is the nurse she likes best?
(a) Megan.
(b) Marcy.
(c) Martha.
(d) Mary.

5. How does Lucy learn that she will skip her chemo treatment if she is sick?
(a) When she reads it in a book.
(b) When her doctor tells her.
(c) When her mother tells her.
(d) By accident.

6. How does she feel about the fact that she might have been walking around looking like that without knowing it?
(a) Horrified.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Slightly embarrassed.
(d) Relieved.

7. With what does Lucy become obsessed?
(a) Her medication.
(b) Finding a way to seek out that guru for herself.
(c) Horses.
(d) Her visits to the hospital.

8. For a brief period of time, where are her chemo medications stored?
(a) At home in the refrigerator.
(b) At the doctor's office.
(c) In a clinic down the street.
(d) In her room.

9. Why are Tuesdays the best days of the week?
(a) She has forgotten the pain of the chemo.
(b) She can have visitors.
(c) The worst part of the nausea has past.
(d) She gets to eat solid foods.

10. How does Lucy later learn why her mother wanted to buy her a wig?
(a) She has changed her mind about wigs.
(b) She was speaking to someone on the phone saying the wig fitting was the first time she had seen Lucy smile in some time.
(c) She is embarrassed to see her daughter's hair falling out.
(d) She does not want Lucy's head to get cold.

11. By the time Lucy has had three operations leading into the major surgery to remove the majority of her jawbone, how does she feel about pre-operative injections?
(a) She comes to welcome them.
(b) She comes to dread them.
(c) She does not think much about them.
(d) She is annoyed by them.

12. What, regarding her looks, is Lucy not sure about?
(a) If she will ever be beautiful again.
(b) If it is a recent change or if she has looked like that for awhile.
(c) If anyone else notices how she looks.
(d) If this is an improvement.

13. What happens during the ride home?
(a) Lucy often throws up in the mixing bowl kept on the floor of the car for that purpose.
(b) Lucy feels much better.
(c) Lucy and her mother ride in silence.
(d) Lucy sleeps.

14. For what does she feel guilty?
(a) Wanting to be alone.
(b) Enjoying her first hospital stay.
(c) Ignoring her family.
(d) Inflicting the pain of her illness on her family.

15. Why does Lucy love to listen to the stormy weather?
(a) Knowing her animals are outside as animals were meant to be.
(b) It reminds her that she is a part of nature.
(c) It soothes her.
(d) It gives her some peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lucy and her mother do for the next two years?

2. What does Lucy call her mother?

3. How does Lucy try to counter her weight loss?

4. Why does Lucy stand her ground against Joni Friedman?

5. Why does Dr. Canton suggest emergency surgery?

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