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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jaouad identify as her family's defining trait?
(a) Hustle.
(b) Nomadism.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Intelligence.

2. Why did one doctor almost insist that Jaouad fly from Paris back to New York in Chapter 4?
(a) Her parents insisted on it.
(b) Her red blood cell count was so low that she might not be allowed on a plane if it got any lower.
(c) Jaouad had told the doctor that was the only thing that might improve her health.
(d) Her employer would not let her come back to work until she had been seen by doctors in New York.

3. What procedure finally resulted in the diagnosis that Jaouad and her family all dreaded?
(a) A simple blood test.
(b) A DNA analysis of Jaouad's hair.
(c) The bone marrow biopsy.
(d) A bone density scan.

4. What was Jaouad's diagnosis in Chapter 6?
(a) Huntington's Disease.
(b) HIV.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Acute myeloid leukemia.

5. What did Jaouad tell Will she thought they should do in Chapter 10?
(a) Break up.
(b) Buy a house.
(c) Play the lottery.
(d) Get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jaouad think of as the group of people who she did not know well but came to visit her and offer unsolicited advice?

2. What did Will and Jaouad do together to help pass the time in Chapter 10?

3. What was one theory about the reason behind Jaouad's itching in Part I?

4. Where did Jaouad eventually start writing a regular column?

5. Who was Jaouad's first oncologist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Jaouad met up with an old friend to go to the mall and a movie in Part II?

2. How did Jaouad feel during her earliest days in the oncology ward?

3. Why does Dr. Holland tell Jaouad's mother to call her father and tell him to come to the hospital in Part II?

4. How did Jouad feel about Will moving to Paris with her?

5. How did Jaouad's medical team react to her news about her plans for getting married to Will?

6. How did Jaouad feel during her first months in Paris?

7. How did things go when Will's parents met Jaouad's parents for the first time?

8. How did Jaouad come to write a column for The New York Times about her experiences as a cancer patient?

9. What burden did Jaouad think her brother Adam bore as her bone marrow donor?

10. What did Will tell Jaouad just before she began her treatment regimen for cancer in Part I?

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