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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. What is the first type of patient in the Hospital?

2. What does Joy miss while she is crying in the shower?

3. Who comes to get Joy out of the shower?

4. Which Floor group starts to rebel against the Hospital?

5. Who in the Hospital goes missing one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nation-wide issue is the U.S. facing at the start of the book?

2. What does Joy learn about her mother during an Internet session?

3. Which person from Joy's past haunted the Stop and Shop where she worked?

4. Who are Joy's first foster parents?

5. Who in the Hospital goes missing one day?

6. Who goes out to find Christopher?

7. What is the new pilgrim's name and where did he come from?

8. What happens during the first blizzard of the year at the Hospital?

9. Why does a pilgrim join the Hospital?

10. What does Joy see one morning in the arms of a pilgrim standing outside the Hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore Joy's relationship with the Psychologist. What is the nature of this relationship, and what does Joy come to realize about it when she is an adult?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine Joy's relationship to and understanding of the Hospital. Does it change throughout the story? How? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore Joy's relationship with Louis. What is the nature of this relationship, and what makes it so important to Joy? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

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