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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Jaouad been hoping to come out of her meeting with Will in Chapter 25?
(a) That they would agree to get a new dog.
(b) That they could stay friends.
(c) That they would agree to sell their house together.
(d) That they would get back together.

2. What did some of the cancer patients do in Chapter 20 that Jaouad sat out?
(a) Gambled.
(b) Drank.
(c) Swam in the pool.
(d) Got tattoos.

3. In Chapter 21, what did Jaouad learn on what she thought was her last day of chemo?
(a) She was being kicked off of her health insurance.
(b) Her cancer was back.
(c) She had another nine months of chemo treatment to go.
(d) Her transplant had not worked.

4. What did Jaouad talk to her friend's class about?
(a) Her music and her relationship with Will.
(b) Chakras, the cancer guru she had seen, and her time at Julliard.
(c) Her experiences with cancer and her philosophy about dealing with grief, loss, and setbacks.
(d) Real estate law, her experiences at Julliard, and her cancer treatments.

5. In Chapter 17, what is an elusive concept for Jaouad?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Home.
(c) Love.
(d) Work.

6. What kind of space did Jaouad think of herself as occupying immediately following her last treatments in Chapter 25?
(a) A place of limitless possibility.
(b) A kind of hell.
(c) An in-between place between health and illness.
(d) A kind of heaven.

7. What did Jaouad confess to the reader about what happened in her lowest moments in Part IV?
(a) She missed her parents.
(b) She fantasized about getting sick again.
(c) She wanted to give her dog back to the shelter.
(d) She wanted to move to another country.

8. What did Ned write to Jaouad about the difficulty of in the post-cancer treatment stage?
(a) Recovering from the financial devastation of illness.
(b) Finding a place to live.
(c) Finding a new job.
(d) Transitioning to being healthy again.

9. Who did Jaouad meet in Chapter 17 that became a good friend?
(a) Bret.
(b) Melissa.
(c) Max.
(d) Johnny.

10. Where did Jaouad keep a lot of her correspondence from when she was ill?
(a) Will's old apartment.
(b) A big wooden box.
(c) Her father's attic.
(d) Her desk drawer.

11. Where did Johnny, Melissa and Jaouad go together in Chapter 20?
(a) India.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) An amusement park.
(d) A Broadway musical.

12. What did Jaouad remember being very upset with Will about in Chapter 32?
(a) His buying a pet without telling her.
(b) His getting a new job.
(c) His going to a wedding in California without her because she was too sick to travel.
(d) His having forgotten to pick up her prescriptions.

13. How did Jaouad's breakup with Will change her relationship with her parents?
(a) It made Jaouad closer with her mother but more distant from her father.
(b) It made Jaouad's relationship with her parents closer.
(c) They were upset that she had broken up with Will after he had been so steadfast in their relationship.
(d) It did not change Jaouad's relationship with her parents.

14. In Chapter 19, what great new friend did Jaoaud meet?
(a) Henry.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Melissa.
(d) Max.

15. What do Will and Jaouad have joint custody of?
(a) Their hamster.
(b) Their cat.
(c) Their dog.
(d) Their car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jaouad's new friend born in Chapter 19?

2. Who did Jaouad meet in Chapter 25 for a musical show that she felt a spark of romance with?

3. Who did Jaouad visit in Detroit?

4. Where did Howard tell Jaouad his wife grew up?

5. Where did Jaouad go to stay for a while after her big journey in Chapter 26?

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