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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. In Chapter 7, what does Jaouad refer to cancer as?
2. In Chapter 11, what activity did Jaouad turn to to try to make sense of what was happening to her?
3. What did Jaouad and other patients do on the Fourth of July in the hospital?
4. What did Jaouad's doctors tell her in the end of Chapter 16 that was unwelcome news?
5. What did Jaouad tell Will she thought they should do in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. What burden did Jaouad think her brother Adam bore as her bone marrow donor?
2. What did Jaouad do for her Hundred-Day Project?
3. Why did Jaouad's doctor in Paris strongly suggest she should go back to New York for awhile?
4. How did Jaouad feel during her first months in Paris?
5. What did Jaouad tell Will he should do in order to give himself a break from caregiving?
6. What did Will tell Jaouad just before she began her treatment regimen for cancer in Part I?
7. Why did Jaouad's doctors suggest her enrollment in a clinical trial?
8. Why does Dr. Holland tell Jaouad's mother to call her father and tell him to come to the hospital in Part II?
9. How did Jaouad's medical team react to her news about her plans for getting married to Will?
10. Why did Jaouad have to stay in isolation during much of her chemotherapy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does becoming Jaouad's transplant donor begin to affect her brother Adam in the lead-up to her surgery? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
What are Jaouad's general impressions of the American health care system from her perspective as a very young cancer patient? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
How does Jaouad's cancer diagnosis change her relationship dynamic with each of her parents? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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