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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bad to Worse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Kik?
(a) Lance's manager.
(b) The woman Lance marries.
(c) The doctor who tells Lance his prognosis.
(d) Lance's chemotherapy nurse.

2. Near the end of the chapter "Bad to Worse," what do doctors begin to fear prior to Lance starting chemotherapy?
(a) That he doesn't have cancer after all.
(b) That his body is too weak to handle chemo.
(c) That the cancer has spread to his brain.
(d) That he will try to race despite their objections.

3. How does Lance regard his stepfather, Terry Armstrong?
(a) They're very close.
(b) Appreciates him.
(c) Misses him.
(d) Dislikes him.

4. Lance is invited to compete in the 1990 Junior World Championship in:
(a) Berlin.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Buenos Aires.

5. What does Lance's mother do when she learns her son has cancer?
(a) Faints.
(b) Flies to Houston to speak with specialists.
(c) Tells Lance's stepfather.
(d) Goes to Austin to support him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite his performance at the Tour de France at the age of twenty-one, what is Lance unable to do?

2. What does Lance's mother do while raising him?

3. Who is Linda Mooneyham?

4. How does young Lance do in the Ironkids competition he enters?

5. What relationship does Lance have with his mother?

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