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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 is Lucy's family constantly facing?

2. Why might Lucy like working with horses?

3. For what does she feel guilty?

4. Who was not Lucy's favorite visitor?

5. What do Lucy's parents say when she asks if they weren't going to stay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place the morning after the pain begins?

2. What does Lucy do when she gets home after her first chemo treatment?

3. What happens after six months?

4. What do Lucy and her mother do for the next two years?

5. How does Lucy feel on Fridays?

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

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

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

9. How does Lucy appear when her parents come for her birthday?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy and Jan share a love of horses.

Part 1) How does this affect their relationship?

Part 2) How does this lead to a job that Lucy enjoys? How does this bring her some peace?

Part 3) What is the significance of this friendship and this love of horses?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy's hair begins to fall out.

Part 1) How does she react to this? How does her mother feel about her reaction?

Part 2) What do Lucy's mother and her mother's friends do for her? What does this reveal about them?

Part 3) Is Lucy's mother's behavior purely for Lucy's sake? Explain.

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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