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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lucy often spend vacation times with friends rather than returning home?
(a) Her mother does not have time for her.
(b) Her mother does not want to see her.
(c) She does not want to see her mother.
(d) Her mother sells the house and takes a small apartment.

2. What is the premonition that Lucy has one day?
(a) There will come a day when her father might not want to see her.
(b) There will come a day when she does not need her father.
(c) There will come a day when she will not live with her father.
(d) There will come a day when her father will no longer be there for her.

3. What does Lucy discover about the graft this time?
(a) It is hard to see.
(b) It is what she had expected.
(c) It is successful.
(d) It stretches from ear-to-ear and is horribly swollen.

4. What does Lucy think about her appearance?
(a) It is worse than she had imagined.
(b) It is not much of an improvement.
(c) It is much improved.
(d) It is what she had expected.

5. What has Lucy become unable to control?
(a) Her mother's reactions to her treatments.
(b) Her desire to be away from school.
(c) Her crying through the treatments.
(d) Her excitement to be at the hospital.

6. What method does Dr. Conley examine her and propose?
(a) The silicone method.
(b) The transplant method.
(c) The pedestal method.
(d) The graft method.

7. With whom does Lucy share a love of horses?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Joni.
(d) Jan.

8. What surgery does this surgeon want to use?
(a) The pedestal system.
(b) The silicone system.
(c) The graft system.
(d) The transplant system.

9. After her surgery, who does she meet?
(a) Marsha.
(b) Michael.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Michaela.

10. What does Lucy realize about her father?
(a) Just how different they had been.
(b) Just how distant he had been in her life.
(c) Just how much her mother misses him.
(d) Just how much she misses him and what a gap his death has left in her life.

11. What happens while Lucy is considering reconstructive surgery options?
(a) She meets a doctor who has a new surgery method.
(b) Her friend Kelly moves away and gives Lucy her horse, Sure Swinger.
(c) A new horse arrives at Diamond D named Sure Swinger.
(d) Her parents buy her a horse named Sure Swinger.

12. When the final shot is over, with whom does Lucy wait?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) The doctor.

13. When Jude breaks up with her, and she takes a long look at herself in the mirror, what does she realize?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is uglier than she expected.
(c) Her bone graft is being reabsorbed like the other grafts.
(d) Her bone graft is still doing well.

14. What does she not understand?
(a) Why other people do not understand her.
(b) Why other people stare at her so much.
(c) Why other people complain so much.
(d) Why other people are afraid of her.

15. Why does Lucy often pull someone aside?
(a) To ask for directions.
(b) To recite some piece of poetry she's read and expecting that it's going to hold as profound a meaning for that person as it does for her.
(c) To see if they become upset upon seeing her deformity.
(d) To make friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the end of her freshman year and the following summer?

2. As a college graduate, how does Lucy remain?

3. Why does Lucy go to New York Medical Center?

4. What kind of person does she hope to meet?

5. What happened to the nurse and intern transporting Lucy?

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