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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 are Randy and Jen drinking when they are at Wallace's house cleaning and getting ready for his arrival?

2. How does the family get through the time when they are waiting for the doctor to call them back?

3. What does the doctor recommend two weeks of in order to make sure the tumor doesn't come back?

4. When Wallace shows up at Jen's, where does he ask her to take him so that he can find out some news?

5. What does the doctor say that the lump on her body is, and Jen pretends she knew this along?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Randy go to see his dad when his dad is finally being released from the hospital?

2. What happens when Jen gets a phone call later in the day, inviting her to come to a party with others?

3. What does Jen do when she turns on the radio, trying to work out a new feeling she has about the tumor Wallace has?

4. What does Jen think about the idea of scars on a person's face?

5. What do Kathleen and Jen decide to do when Wallace is going to lay down for a nap for a while?

6. What is the embarrassing memory that Jen and Wallace share as they are talking about tumors and karma?

7. What does Jen think about the other people in the town that are very paranoid about their lives and their surroundings?

8. What is the worry that Jen has about being at parties, and what a person might ask her when she is there?

9. What are the criteria that Jen has in terms of deciding whether or not to take a job that she is offered by another?

10. What is the nightmare that Jen is having when the chapter first begins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Visiting a loved one in the hospital is not an easy thing, and it can bring up a lot of emotions in people.

Part 1: Why do you think families and people tend to have troubles going to hospitals?

Part 2: Do you think you would have troubles going to see a loved one after surgery?

Part 3: How do you think a family might be able to make the trip to the hospital easier? Or can't they?

Essay Topic 2

Wallace pretends to feel bad about the death of the cat, for Jen's benefit.

Part 1: Why do you think Wallace doesn't feel bad about the cat?

Part 2: How do you think Jen would feel if no one was sympathetic about the death?

Part 3: Do you think the cat's death reminds Jen about her father's mortality? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Megan and Jen talk about how senseless it is that young people get cancer and how good people get sick.

Part 1: Do you think that it's senseless that young people get cancer?

Part 2: Why do you think cancer and illness upset people so much that they take it personally?

Part 3: How do you think you would feel if a friend got cancer?

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