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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10, World of Unknowing and The Habits of Self-Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucy's mother insist that she be?
(a) Brave.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Calm.
(d) Patient.

2. How is Lucy when her family comes to visit on her birthday?
(a) Much improved.
(b) She is an emaciated shell of herself.
(c) The same as before she had cancer.
(d) Somewhat weakened.

3. How does Lucy's test go?
(a) Smoothly.
(b) The surgery does not take place.
(c) With major complications.
(d) With minor complications.

4. What has Lucy experienced by the time she begins to work there?
(a) She has spent many years around horses.
(b) She has trained horses for other stables.
(c) She has moved many times and has few friends.
(d) She has had several surgeries and her face is oddly shaped.

5. How does Lucy feel on Fridays?
(a) Worried about the chemo treatment.
(b) Anxiety over the chemo treatment.
(c) Sad that she cannot be as brave as her mother wants.
(d) Excited to get the treatment started.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy say about the grief she feels for her father?

2. When Lucy arrives home what does her mother have for her?

3. How does Lucy console herself?

4. As she continues to battle through operations aimed at reconstruction, on what does she pin all her hopes?

5. After her surgery, who does she meet?

(see the answer key)

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