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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 does Lucy's family begin calling Friday?

2. What happens during the ride home?

3. How does Lucy's mother soothe her?

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

5. With what does Lucy become obsessed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Lucy's family's background.

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

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

8. What happens when Lucy's father loses his job?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy's friend Kelly gives her her horse.

Part 1) Why does she give Lucy her horse? What does this reveal about Kelly?

Part 2) How does the horse, Sure Swinger, affect Lucy?

Part 3) What happens to the horse that keeps Lucy on a path of sadness tragedy? How does Lucy deal with this? What does this show about her personality?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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