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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 about the grief she feels for her father?
(a) It is not as strong as she thought it would be.
(b) It is pure and uncomplicated.
(c) It is not what she expected.
(d) It is more complex.

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

3. What kind of person does she hope to meet?
(a) Someone who will be honest with her.
(b) Someone who dares to tease her.
(c) Someone who can see past the lack of beauty and who can love her anyway.
(d) Someone who is not afraid of her deformity.

4. Does Lucy ask her mother about Teresa's comment?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Much later.
(d) Not at first.

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

6. What becomes an obsession?
(a) The dressing up.
(b) Writing poetry.
(c) School.
(d) Jude.

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

8. Why does Lucy spend hours working out?
(a) She has control over her body.
(b) It makes her feel good about herself.
(c) Jude wants her to work out.
(d) She has nothing better to do.

9. What does Lucy come to realize and accept?
(a) What has happened to her will happen to no one else.
(b) What has happened to her could have been prevented.
(c) What has happened to her is a punishment.
(d) What has happened to her is not any sort of punishment.

10. What does Dr. Baker do when the time comes for her next surgery?
(a) He sends her to someone with more experience.
(b) He discusses her options.
(c) He cites a lack of time and passes her off to two other doctors for the surgery.
(d) He tells her he cannot have her as a patient.

11. What does Lucy discover when she wakes in St. Vincent?
(a) She cannot feel her legs.
(b) She has as tracheotomy.
(c) She is feeling better.
(d) Her face is much improved.

12. How often does Lucy visit her father during his hospital stay?
(a) Once.
(b) Four times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Twice.

13. How does Lucy say she feels about her appearance?
(a) Worse.
(b) The same.
(c) Somewhat better.
(d) Better.

14. What does Lucy begin carrying around?
(a) A scarf.
(b) Thick books of poetry.
(c) A mask.
(d) A screen.

15. How do the boys tease her?
(a) By telling her to take off that mask.
(b) By telling her she scares them.
(c) By telling her she would be good in a scary movie.
(d) By telling her she is a monster.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Lucy try convince herself that she can replace her need for a lover?

2. How does Lucy console herself?

3. What happens when Dr. Baker performs another graft?

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

5. As she continues to battle through operations aimed at reconstruction, on what does she pin all her hopes?

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