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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. Who did Dr. Holland suggest that Jaouad's mother call to come to the hospital in Chapter 10?

2. What did Jaouad's father do for his Hundred-Day Project?

3. What did Jaouad and other patients do on the Fourth of July in the hospital?

4. In Chapter 4, what symptom was getting so bad Jaouad could not ignore it any longer?

5. Where did Jaouad move after graduation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jaouad's doctor in Paris strongly suggest she should go back to New York for awhile?

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

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

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

5. What did Jaouad do for her Hundred-Day Project?

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

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

8. How did Jaouad feel after hearing about her leukemia diagnosis for the first time?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are some of the first other young cancer patients Jaouad begins befriending, and what does she learn from them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

How does Jaouad explain her eventual breakup with Will to herself and to the reader? How does Jaouad's perspective on the breakup and the reasons behind it change over the course of the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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