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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lucy wonder about those without her deformity?
(a) How they can ever be sad.
(b) How they can feel sorry for her.
(c) How they can possibly understand her situation.
(d) How they can live a full life.

3. After she leaves the hospital, what does Lucy wonder?
(a) If he ever pictures himself standing above the water and planning to make the jump.
(b) If he wishes he had not survived the jump.
(c) If he will ever walk again.
(d) If he regrets jumping.

4. Why does Lucy almost welcome the start of chemotherapy again?
(a) It takes her away from school.
(b) It is a routine that she is used to.
(c) She does not have to do school work.
(d) She gets to see her favorite nurse.

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

6. What happens when Lucy's father becomes ill?
(a) He spends a long time in the hospital.
(b) He goes to see the doctor.
(c) He dies.
(d) He spends a short time in the hospital before he is released.

7. How is Lucy her old bubbly self at Halloween?
(a) She is with close friends.
(b) It is dark.
(c) She conceals her face.
(d) Everyone thinks she has on a mask.

8. About what is all Lucy cares?
(a) Having a pretty face.
(b) Having time away from school and the taunts of the boys.
(c) Getting her schoolwork done.
(d) Getting better.

9. When Lucy arrives home what does her mother have for her?
(a) Turtlenecks for her to wear during the summer.
(b) Wigs.
(c) Many scarves.
(d) Jars of scar cream.

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

11. After trick-or-treating, what does Lucy do?
(a) She eats her candy.
(b) She slips back into her depression.
(c) She gives all her candy to Teresa.
(d) She goes to bed.

12. What happens during the end of her freshman year and the following summer?
(a) She adjusts to her looks.
(b) Some changes take place.
(c) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(d) The usual.

13. What does she seem to believe is wrong?
(a) For her to want something other than her situation.
(b) For her to want her friends to feel sorry for her.
(c) For her to believe she will need more surgeries.
(d) For her to understand why she is depressed.

14. When the call comes saying that her father had died, how does the family feel?
(a) Shock and sadness.
(b) They experience a huge sense of relief.
(c) Anger and frustration.
(d) Nothing.

15. What does Lucy say is going to happen to this person, because of a stupid stunt?
(a) He will be very embarrassed.
(b) He will have a deformity like her.
(c) He will be paralyzed for the rest of his life.
(d) He will never do stupid stunts again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy discover about the graft this time?

2. Is Lucy sympathetic of others as she faces her own crisis?

3. She says that after that revelation, what does she do?

4. Why does Lucy often spend vacation times with friends rather than returning home?

5. What does Lucy realize about her father?

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