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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. How long has Lucy been acquainted with the idea of death?
(a) Since she was six when a family pet died.
(b) Since her parents had sat all the children down and discussed it.
(c) Since her grandfather had died when she was eight.
(d) Since she found out she had cancer.

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

3. What does Lucy call her mother?
(a) Only Friend.
(b) Patient Visitor.
(c) Best Friend.
(d) Visitor Extraordinaire.

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

5. How does Lucy try to counter her weight loss?
(a) She talks to a dietician.
(b) She stops exercising.
(c) She eats only junk food.
(d) She forces herself to eat every fattening thing she can find.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lucy's parents do when they find out she has to have a bone marrow test?

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?

3. How does Lucy feel about her first experience of the hospital during that first surgery?

4. What is one of Lucy's family's oddities?

5. When Lucy complains of severe jaw pain, what does her mother think it is?

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