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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lucy want in regards to what the people in the letters and cards are talking about?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Love.
(c) Safety.
(d) Peace.

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

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

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

7. How does Lucy react when her hair begins to fall out?
(a) She screams.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She is silent.
(d) She cries.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 she reads it in a book.
(d) When her doctor tells her.

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

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

15. Why does Lucy do this?
(a) She loves when he comes to visit.
(b) She wants to spare him this one visit.
(c) He is under a lot of stress.
(d) She wants him to know she is awake.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Lucy's family move?

2. What does Lucy's family begin calling Friday?

3. What do Lucy and this boy do around the hospital?

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

5. How does she try to catch pneumonia again?

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