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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 must Lucy endure while working there?

2. How does she try to catch pneumonia again?

3. What does Lucy wonder is what keeps her from seeing a sign from God?

4. The next morning, what does Lucy's mother give her?

5. What does Lucy want in regards to what the people in the letters and cards are talking about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lucy learn she can skip her chemo treatments?

2. Describe Lucy.

3. What happens after six months?

4. How does Lucy compare her family to other families?

5. How does Lucy feel about her first experience in the hospital?

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

7. Who is Lucy's favorite nurse? Why?

8. Who does Lucy meet in the hospital?

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

10. Describe Lucy's "kingdom."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy receives words of encouragement from people through letters and cards.

Part 1) What do these cards and letters say? Why do these people send these to her?

Part 2) How is she affected by these cards and letters? Why is she affected this way?

Part 3) What does this say about the importance of faith?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy graduates from Sarah Lawrence.

Part 1) Describe her experience at Sarah Lawrence. How do her experiences differ from what she hoped she would find at Sarah Lawrence?

Part 2) How do her years at Sarah Lawrence end? Happily? With regret? Why? What is the next step she takes after college? Why does she choose this?

Part 3) How does this next step lead her to Jude and a change in the way she sees herself?

Essay Topic 3

Lucy wonders why people who do not have her deformity can ever be sad.

Part 1) Why does she wonder this? Why is she unable to understand that the pain she feels in not unique to her or her situation?

Part 2) What do these thoughts suggest about Lucy?

Part 3) Are you surprised she feels this way? Why or why not?

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