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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Lucy say she can't open her mouth?
(a) She might say something she does not mean.
(b) Her lips are stuck together.
(c) Her jaw is stuck.
(d) Her jaw hurts too much.

6. What does no one, even her boss, Ms. Daniels, seem to think is a bad idea?
(a) Having her around children.
(b) Having her lead ponies around.
(c) Having her train horses.
(d) Having her ride horses.

7. When does Lucy miss a treatment?
(a) Her blood work is off.
(b) When she pretends to faint.
(c) When she gets pneumonia again.
(d) When she gets tetanus.

8. What happens to Lucy as time passes?
(a) She gradually becomes worse.
(b) She is healed.
(c) She stays the same.
(d) She gradually improves.

9. With what does Lucy become obsessed?
(a) Horses.
(b) Her medication.
(c) Her visits to the hospital.
(d) Finding a way to seek out that guru for herself.

10. How does Lucy feel about her first experience of the hospital during that first surgery?
(a) She relishes it.
(b) She worries about it.
(c) She is angered by it.
(d) She fears it.

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

12. 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 "village."
(c) A "country."
(d) A "city."

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

14. What does Lucy do when the parents start pulling out cameras?
(a) She volunteers to take the photograph.
(b) She stands still, though with her face out of camera range as much as possible.
(c) She stands so she will be in the middle of the photo.
(d) She runs away.

15. How does Lucy respond when she looks at herself in the mirror?
(a) Excited.
(b) Somewhat surprised.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lucy about six months later?

2. Why might Lucy like working with horses?

3. Why do most people not want to ask Lucy about her deformity?

4. For a brief period of time, where are her chemo medications stored?

5. What happens when Lucy wakes in recovery?

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