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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lucy say begins to revive her?
(a) The love of friends and family.
(b) The smell of the liquefied food.
(c) The nutrients in the food.
(d) The chemo.

3. How does Lucy feel about people not asking about her deformity?
(a) She feels worried.
(b) She feels unsure.
(c) She feels relieved.
(d) She feels a deeper offense.

4. What happens when Lucy wakes in recovery?
(a) The surgery did not go as planned.
(b) She finds out that Mary had lied to her about the pain.
(c) She is feeling better than before surgery.
(d) She's hurting all over and finds she has had a tracheotomy.

5. Of what does Lucy tell?
(a) Her years in art school.
(b) Her years as a hand for Diamond D Stables.
(c) Her life in Paris.
(d) Her years in a private school.

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

7. How is her second week of chemo different from her first?
(a) She does not become as violently ill.
(b) She invites friends over.
(c) She goes directly to bed once she gets home, refusing to even try to eat anything.
(d) She tries eating something when she gets home.

8. 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?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A friend.
(d) A book on oncology.

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

10. How does Lucy say that she got the job?
(a) As a result of meeting with the owner for an interview.
(b) As a result of knowing several of the girls who already work there.
(c) As a result of calling on the phone and not mentioning her disfigurement.
(d) As a result of e-mailing the owner about working there.

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

12. Who is the nurse she likes best?
(a) Megan.
(b) Martha.
(c) Mary.
(d) Marcy.

13. Why does Lucy become dependent on the drugs during this time in the hospital?
(a) Simply as a way of escaping the reality of recovery.
(b) Simply as a way of escaping her mother.
(c) Simply because they are very addictive.
(d) Simply because she is in so much pain.

14. What happens when Lucy's mother can't smoke?
(a) It makes her worry.
(b) It stops her from bothering Lucy.
(c) She becomes slightly irritable.
(d) It makes her insane.

15. What does Lucy begin to notice in her mouth?
(a) Growths.
(b) Sore gums.
(c) Missing teeth.
(d) Sores.

Short Answer Questions

1. The insurance that will not pay for some things does pay for what?

2. What does Lucy do when she recognizes her father's gait down the hall?

3. What must Lucy endure while working there?

4. Who is Lucy's twin?

5. Who do not belong together for the long-term?

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