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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. Where did Jaouad go for a few weeks before starting her clinical trial?
(a) Will's house in California.
(b) India.
(c) Her parents' house in Saratoga.
(d) Her apartment in New York City.

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

3. Where was Jaouad's father Hedi from?
(a) England.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Spain.

4. What did Jaouad and Will use as a table in their apartment in Paris?
(a) A steamer trunk.
(b) A cardboard box.
(c) A record turntable.
(d) A stack of books.

5. What did Jaouad delay her initial cancer treatments for in Chapter 8?
(a) To be able to take a trip she always wanted to take.
(b) So she could visit friends she had not seen in a long time.
(c) To be able to have fertility treatments and freeze some of her eggs.
(d) So she could get a better sense of her treatment options.

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. Where did Jaouad's mother take her for alternative approaches to the diagnosis?

3. Where did Jaouad study music while in high school?

4. What did Jaouad overhear her father telling her mother he feared Jaouad might be ill with in Chapter 5?

5. Where did Jaouad attend college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Jaouad do when she moved to New York City right after college graduation?

3. Why did Jaouad have to stay in isolation during much of her chemotherapy?

4. What was Jaouad's experiences with the so-called Cancer Guru?

5. What was one consequence of Jaouad's New York Times column?

6. Why did Jaouad's doctors suggest her enrollment in a clinical trial?

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

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

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

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

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