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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Lucy when her family comes to visit on her birthday?
(a) She is an emaciated shell of herself.
(b) The same as before she had cancer.
(c) Somewhat weakened.
(d) Much improved.

3. Why do most people not want to ask Lucy about her deformity?
(a) They do not care to know what is wrong.
(b) They are afraid of her.
(c) They are embarrassed.
(d) They don't want to hurt her feelings.

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

5. Why might Lucy like working with horses?
(a) They will not judge her by her looks.
(b) They are pretty.
(c) They are easy to handle.
(d) They help her make friends.

6. Why does Lucy's insurance change?
(a) Her parents cannot afford the current company's premium.
(b) The insurance company drops her.
(c) Her dad loses his job at ABC and is hired by CBS.
(d) Her dad's company drops his insurance.

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. About whom does Lucy feel especially guilty?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

12. At what does Lucy become adept?
(a) Hiding her feelings from Derek.
(b) Controlling her emotions during tests and surgeries.
(c) Hiding her face from children behind a curtain of her own hair.
(d) Being sneaky around the hospital.

13. What has Lucy experienced by the time she begins to work there?
(a) She has moved many times and has few friends.
(b) She has had several surgeries and her face is oddly shaped.
(c) She has trained horses for other stables.
(d) She has spent many years around horses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was not Lucy's favorite visitor?

4. How does Lucy try to counter her weight loss?

5. What does no one, even her boss, Ms. Daniels, seem to think is a bad idea?

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