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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Lucy experienced by the time she begins to work there?

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

3. Why does Lucy do this?

4. How is Lucy not accustomed to seeing her parents?

5. Why might Lucy like working with horses?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do others treat Lucy's facial deformity?

2. When does she miss a chemo treatment? How does she feel about this?

3. How do both Lucy's mother and her mother's friends try to help her deal with her hair loss?

4. How does Lucy first feels signs of her cancer?

5. What does Lucy do to try to skip her chemo treatments?

6. What takes place during Lucy's chemo treatments?

7. What happens after six months?

8. What is surprising about Lucy's parents' behavior when she has her bone marrow test?

9. Why is Lucy relieved when her father's new job begins?

10. What does Lucy begin to notice on her mouth? How else is she affected by the chemo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the book, Lucy looks into a window "to see if I could, now, recognize myself."

Part 1) What does this mean?

Part 2) How does she come to say this?

Part 3) What is the purpose of ending the book this way? What message does this send to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy loses her insurance a few times.

Part 1) Why does she lose her insurance? How does this affect her?

Part 2) What does this show about the United States health care system?

Part 3) What could be done to improve this system? How can these changes benefit those who are in situations such as Lucy's?

Essay Topic 3

The nurse Lucy likes best is Mary.

Part 1) Describe Mary. Why does Lucy like her the best?

Part 2) Why does the rest of the hospital staff not act the way Mary does?

Part 3) How might Lucy's experience with cancer and the many surgeries afterward have been different if others had been more like Mary?

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