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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Lucy's self-esteem at that point?
(a) It is the same.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is slowly improving.
(d) It sinks as low as she can imagine.

2. What does she not understand?
(a) Why other people stare at her so much.
(b) Why other people are afraid of her.
(c) Why other people complain so much.
(d) Why other people do not understand her.

3. How does the site of the staples make it appear?
(a) As if they had sawed off her leg.
(b) As if she were Frankenstein's monster.
(c) As if they had sawed off her arm.
(d) As if they had cut her in two.

4. What does Dr. Baker do when the time comes for her next surgery?
(a) He sends her to someone with more experience.
(b) He cites a lack of time and passes her off to two other doctors for the surgery.
(c) He discusses her options.
(d) He tells her he cannot have her as a patient.

5. What game does Lucy play while in public?
(a) Trying to catch children looking at her.
(b) Trying to get people to ask about her deformity.
(c) Trying to catch adults looking at her.
(d) Trying to get people to look at her.

6. After she leaves the hospital, what does Lucy wonder?
(a) If he ever pictures himself standing above the water and planning to make the jump.
(b) If he wishes he had not survived the jump.
(c) If he regrets jumping.
(d) If he will ever walk again.

7. Is Lucy sympathetic of others as she faces her own crisis?
(a) Yes.
(b) At times.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

8. She says that after that revelation, what does she do?
(a) She always tells him she loves him.
(b) She always tells him how great he is.
(c) She always makes a point to greet him.
(d) She always tells him how much she needs him.

9. How do the boys tease her?
(a) By telling her she scares them.
(b) By telling her she is a monster.
(c) By telling her to take off that mask.
(d) By telling her she would be good in a scary movie.

10. Why is Lucy worried about putting up her hair to show the horses?
(a) She is afraid it will fall out.
(b) She cannot fit it into the helmet.
(c) She cannot use it to conceal her face.
(d) It will not look attractive on her.

11. What does Lucy discover about the graft this time?
(a) It is hard to see.
(b) It stretches from ear-to-ear and is horribly swollen.
(c) It is what she had expected.
(d) It is successful.

12. Why does Lucy go to New York Medical Center?
(a) For her first reconstructive surgery.
(b) To visit her father.
(c) To visit a friend.
(d) For a chemo treatment.

13. What does Lucy think about her appearance?
(a) It is what she had expected.
(b) It is much improved.
(c) It is worse than she had imagined.
(d) It is not much of an improvement.

14. What does Dr. Baker propose?
(a) Taking skin from a corpse.
(b) Cutting skin from Lucy's hip and grafting it to her jaw.
(c) The pedestal method.
(d) Growing her skin in a petrie dish.

15. On whom does Lucy develop a crush?
(a) Michael.
(b) A classmate named Danny.
(c) Jude.
(d) Her boss, Hans.

Short Answer Questions

1. After trick-or-treating, what does Lucy do?

2. What happens during the end of her freshman year and the following summer?

3. Where does she have a row of staples?

4. How many more weeks of chemo does Lucy's mother remind her she has?

5. Why does Lucy say she no longer needs anyone to say anything to her?

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