2. What does Nina Voss overhear her husband saying to the doctors in Chapter 3?
(a) She is costing him too much money with her illness.
(b) She needs a new heart at any cost.
(c) She needs to die faster.
(d) She is too young to die.

3. What does Mary Allen say to Abby when she visits her in the SICU in Chapter 6?
(a) That she wants to go home.
(b) That she would like to die.
(c) That she does not want treatment.
(d) That she does not want morphine.

4. What is Yakov's favorite place on ship as described in Chapter 7?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The bridge.
(c) The engine room.
(d) The deck.

5. What is the name of the sailboat Mark is racing in Chapter 10?
(a) Red Current.
(b) Red Blood.
(c) Red Eye.
(d) Red Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness impacts the boys in Nadiya's charge as they travel to America in Chapter 7?

2. What is the name of Mark's sailboat?

3. Why does Aleksei go back into Uncle Misha's flat after Nadiya leads the boys outside?

4. Why does Karen Terrio tell the reader she is driving in the middle of the night?

5. What does SICU stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gregor do to Uncle Misha after the boys leave the apartment?

2. Why does the transplant team invite Abby to join them on a heart transplant in chapter 6? What is the reason Abby might have refused?

3. Why does Abby visit Nina Voss in Chapter 8? How does Nina Voss react to this visit?

4. What does Dr. Chao decide to do to make sure that Josh O'Day receives a heart?

5. What does Abby say about the morphine she orders for Mary Allen in Chapter 6?

6. What does Mark tell Abby about the harvest at Wilcox Memorial Hospital that causes her to feel assured that the harvest took place there despite her earlier phone call? Who did the harvest?

7. Who attempts to stop the delivery of Karen Terrio's heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 5?

8. What does Abby learn in Chapter 5 will be the consequences of what she and Vivien have done?

9. What doctor becomes interested in Karen Terrio's organs? For what reason?

10. Who is chosen to take the heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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