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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For a brief period of time, where are her chemo medications stored?
(a) In a clinic down the street.
(b) At home in the refrigerator.
(c) At the doctor's office.
(d) In her room.

3. What happens to Lucy about six months later?
(a) Her face is swollen and hot.
(b) Her jaw begins to deteriorate.
(c) Her face feels fine.
(d) Her teeth begin to fall out.

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

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

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

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

8. What must Lucy endure while working there?
(a) Very little pay.
(b) Pony parties.
(c) Annoying girls.
(d) Mean horses.

9. What is one of Lucy's family's oddities?
(a) They live with many other relatives.
(b) Her brother Sean has schizophrenia.
(c) She has many brothers and sisters.
(d) Her parents.

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

11. How does Lucy feel on Fridays?
(a) Excited to get the treatment started.
(b) Worried about the chemo treatment.
(c) Anxiety over the chemo treatment.
(d) Sad that she cannot be as brave as her mother wants.

12. From where does Lucy's family move?
(a) Australia.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

13. 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.

14. Why are Tuesdays the best days of the week?
(a) She gets to eat solid foods.
(b) The worst part of the nausea has past.
(c) She has forgotten the pain of the chemo.
(d) She can have visitors.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Lucy later learn why her mother wanted to buy her a wig?

3. Who is the nurse she likes best?

4. Why does Lucy become dependent on the drugs during this time in the hospital?

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

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