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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lucy's family begin calling Friday?
(a) D-Day.
(b) C-Day.
(c) F-Day.
(d) Freaky Friday.

3. How does Lucy later learn why her mother wanted to buy her a wig?
(a) She has changed her mind about wigs.
(b) She does not want Lucy's head to get cold.
(c) She is embarrassed to see her daughter's hair falling out.
(d) She was speaking to someone on the phone saying the wig fitting was the first time she had seen Lucy smile in some time.

4. What is Lucy's family constantly facing?
(a) Money problems.
(b) A law suit from Joni's family.
(c) One problem after another.
(d) Ridicule from the neighbors.

5. Why does Lucy stand her ground against Joni Friedman?
(a) Joni is trying to steal the ball and Lucy knows it is her ball.
(b) Joni is teasing other students, so Lucy stands up for them.
(c) Joni is a bully and Lucy is tired of dealing with her.
(d) Joni is not good at sports, and Lucy knows this.

6. Who is Lucy's twin?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Martha.

7. What do Lucy's parents do when they find out she has to have a bone marrow test?
(a) They disagree.
(b) They prepare to leave.
(c) They consider taking Lucy to another doctor.
(d) They prepare to move into the hospital.

8. Why is Lucy perplexed when her mother says she will buy her a wig if she wants one?
(a) Her mother wants her to wear a hat.
(b) Her family is short on money, and wigs are expensive.
(c) Her family does not want her to cover her head.
(d) Her mother does not like wigs.

9. How does Lucy learn that she will skip her chemo treatment if she is sick?
(a) By accident.
(b) When her mother tells her.
(c) When her doctor tells her.
(d) When she reads it in a book.

10. What is an ordeal for Lucy?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Speaking.

11. Why does Dr. Canton suggest emergency surgery?
(a) He believes Lucy has an infection.
(b) He believes Lucy has a broken jaw.
(c) He believes Lucy has cancer.
(d) He believes Lucy has a cyst.

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

13. What game is Lucy playing when she gets hit?
(a) Dodgeball.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Soccer.

14. How does she feel about the fact that she might have been walking around looking like that without knowing it?
(a) Horrified.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Slightly embarrassed.

15. What do Lucy and her mother do for the next two years?
(a) Enjoy each other's company.
(b) Enroll her in a program for children dealing with cancer.
(c) Drive into New York City every day for radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
(d) Help her catch up in her school work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the letters and cards say that Lucy begins receiving from people?

2. Looking back on her time in the hospital, how does she feel?

3. When does Lucy miss a treatment?

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

5. When the insurance from her father's new job begins, why is she relieved?

(see the answer keys)

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