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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. Is Lucy sympathetic of others as she faces her own crisis?

2. When Lucy arrives home what does her mother have for her?

3. To whose situation does Lucy compare her own?

4. Why does Lucy say she no longer needs anyone to say anything to her?

5. What grades in school does Lucy mostly miss?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lucy begin to feel about her father? How does it affect her behavior towards him?

2. How does Lucy feel about her last six weeks of chemo?

3. What does Lucy notice about her appearance at this time?

4. What happens when Lucy starts junior high?

5. What happens when Lucy wakes from her surgery at St. Vincent?

6. What takes place during her next surgery?

7. What does Lucy say about her father's time in the hospital and his eventual death?

8. What does Lucy begin doing at Diamond D?

9. What does Lucy say about her friend, Teresa?

10. What do Lucy and Jan have in common?

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

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 3

Lucy loses her insurance a few times.

Part 1) Why does she lose her insurance? How does this affect her?

Part 2) What does this show about the United States health care system?

Part 3) What could be done to improve this system? How can these changes benefit those who are in situations such as Lucy's?

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