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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. By the time Lucy has had three operations leading into the major surgery to remove the majority of her jawbone, how does she feel about pre-operative injections?

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

3. Why are Tuesdays the best days of the week?

4. What happens to Lucy about six months later?

5. For a brief period of time, where are her chemo medications stored?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lucy feel after three operations?

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

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

4. How does Lucy feel about moving into another ward?

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

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

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

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

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

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

For two years Lucy and her mother drive to New York City every day for radiation and chemo treatments.

Part 1) How does this affect their relationship?

Part 2) Describe this ordeal. How is Lucy affected by it, both physically and emotionally?

Part 3) How do these treatments lead to many more years of frustration and depression for Lucy?

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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