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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12, Cool and Mirrors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the insurance from her father's new job begins, why is she relieved?
(a) It means no more doctor's visits and rides in the ambulance.
(b) It means no more in-home nursing care or storing drugs at home.
(c) It means no more rides in the ambulance or storing drugs at home.
(d) It means no more hospital stays or visits to the local clinic.

2. Why do most people not want to ask Lucy about her deformity?
(a) They are embarrassed.
(b) They don't want to hurt her feelings.
(c) They are afraid of her.
(d) They do not care to know what is wrong.

3. How often does Lucy visit her father during his hospital stay?
(a) Once.
(b) Four times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Three times.

4. What does Lucy realize about her father?
(a) Just how distant he had been in her life.
(b) Just how different they had been.
(c) Just how much she misses him and what a gap his death has left in her life.
(d) Just how much her mother misses him.

5. Why does Lucy like this nurse?
(a) She is quick and efficient.
(b) She tells Lucy she will feel no pain.
(c) She does not lie about the pain Lucy will feel but always tries to be humorous.
(d) She is very kind and gentle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lucy's insurance change?

2. Why does Lucy say she can't open her mouth?

3. How does Lucy learn, as a teenager, that there's a five percent survival rate for victims of Ewing's sarcoma, the disease Lucy battled?

4. What does she not understand?

5. What does Lucy ask to do before she is fed liquid food down her feeding tube?

(see the answer key)

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