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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Lucy's mother have to leave?
(a) Her job at a school.
(b) Her job in a bank.
(c) Her job in a corporation.
(d) Her job in a nursing home.

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

3. How long would the process take to complete?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.

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

5. Why does her mother buy her these?
(a) To help hide some of the scarring.
(b) To make her feel more comfortable.
(c) To cover her head so she will not be cold.
(d) To help the scars heal faster.

6. How does the site of the staples make it appear?
(a) As if they had sawed off her leg.
(b) As if they had sawed off her arm.
(c) As if they had cut her in two.
(d) As if she were Frankenstein's monster.

7. What does Dr. Baker do when the time comes for her next surgery?
(a) He discusses her options.
(b) He sends her to someone with more experience.
(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.

8. As a college graduate, how does Lucy remain?
(a) A virgin.
(b) Without friends.
(c) Excited about school.
(d) Unsure of what she wants.

9. When Lucy looks the procedure up in a book, how does she find herself?
(a) With some hope.
(b) With a great amount of fear.
(c) Filled with anger.
(d) Completely without hope.

10. Where does she have a row of staples?
(a) On her hip.
(b) On her elbow.
(c) On her head.
(d) On her stomach.

11. What game does Lucy play while in public?
(a) Trying to get people to ask about her deformity.
(b) Trying to catch adults looking at her.
(c) Trying to get people to look at her.
(d) Trying to catch children looking at her.

12. What does Lucy come to wonder?
(a) Why she is being punished.
(b) What surgery is the best option.
(c) How this could have been prevented.
(d) If everything she loves dies.

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

14. About what does Lucy vow to learn?
(a) Hope.
(b) Courage.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

15. What happens to Lucy's self-esteem at that point?
(a) It sinks as low as she can imagine.
(b) It is the same.
(c) It is slowly improving.
(d) It does not exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Lucy share a love of horses?

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

3. Why does Lucy say she no longer needs anyone to say anything to her?

4. At his urging, what does Lucy do?

5. Lucy says that as a young child, she and Sarah would do what to their father?

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