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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. Why does Lucy become dependent on the drugs during this time in the hospital?

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

3. With what does Lucy become obsessed?

4. When Lucy complains of severe jaw pain, what does her mother think it is?

5. Why does Lucy's insurance change?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Lucy feel after three operations?

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

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

7. How does Lucy feel about her weeks and the days in between her chemo treatments?

8. What happens after six months?

9. What happens when Lucy's hair begins to fall out?

10. Describe Lucy's "kingdom."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy analyzes the relationship between the visitor and the patient.

Part 1) How does she come to analyze this relationship?

Part 2) To what conclusion does she come? Why?

Part 3) How does this conclusion affect the visits she receives from her parents? How does it also help her deal with her parents?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy relishes her first hospital experience.

Part 1) Why does she enjoy this visit? How does it compare to subsequent visits?

Part 2) How does this first visit foreshadow the next several years of her life?

Part 3) What does this visit reveal about doctors and the medical profession?

Essay Topic 3

Lucy's family immigrated to the United States.

Part 1) Describe their immigration. What is the importance of this?

Part 2) What do these details about her family reveal about them?

Part 3) How do these details help explain who Lucy is as a person?

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