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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. For whom does Lucy begin showing horses?

2. How is the bone unlike the skin grafts?

3. What does Lucy come to wonder?

4. Where does Dr. Baker send Lucy?

5. When the call comes saying that her father had died, how does the family feel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does note about Michael?

3. How does Lucy protect herself, regarding her disfigured face?

4. How does Lucy feel about herself at this point?

5. What changes take place in Lucy's life?

6. How does Lucy acquire Sure Swinger? What happens to Sure Swinger?

7. What happens when Lucy develops a crush?

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

9. What complications does Lucy face from this surgery? How is she treated?

10. How does Lucy feel about her sexuality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy must make decisions about reconstructive surgery.

Part 1) What options does she have? What option does she choose? Why do she choose it?

Part 2) What keeps her from choosing the pedestal method?

Part 3) Are these operations successful? Where they worth it? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy's parents leave her alone during her first bone marrow test.

Part 1) Why do they leave her alone? How is she affected by this?

Part 2) What does their behavior foreshadow?

Part 3) Do Lucy's parents love her? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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