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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6, Life on Earth and Door Number Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does she scratch herself with a rusty nail?
(a) She thinks tetanus would be preferable to the chemo treatments.
(b) She wants others to feel sorry for her.
(c) She cannot stop the itching any other way.
(d) She has gone insane.

2. 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 is annoyed by them.
(b) She comes to dread them.
(c) She comes to welcome them.
(d) She does not think much about them.

3. What does Lucy create near the garage in what she calls "a small island of grass between the sea of driveway asphalt and the front walk of cement?"
(a) A "kingdom."
(b) A "city."
(c) A "village."
(d) A "country."

4. What does Lucy ask to do before she is fed liquid food down her feeding tube?
(a) Touch it.
(b) Smell it.
(c) Taste it.
(d) Brush her teeth.

5. When her mother is asked about the wigs that Lucy does not want to wear, how does she respond?
(a) They are too expensive.
(b) The wigs do not fit.
(c) They are ugly.
(d) Lucy refuses to wear them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an ordeal for Lucy?

2. What does Lucy do when the parents start pulling out cameras?

3. How does Lucy feel about people not asking about her deformity?

4. How is her second week of chemo different from her first?

5. What do Lucy and this boy do around the hospital?

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