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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conversations with Cancer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do all doctors agree upon with regards to Lance's brain lesions?
(a) They require surgery.
(b) He needs another MRI.
(c) They will impair his balance.
(d) They require radiation.

3. What does Lance ask for after hearing everything doctors have to say to him about proposed treatments?
(a) Three days to reach a decision.
(b) Medicine for his increasing pain.
(c) For time with friends and family to make a decision.
(d) A coin to flip.

4. What type of cancer is Lance first diagnosed with?
(a) Testicular.
(b) Pancreatic.
(c) Prostate.
(d) Bladder.

5. Instead of giving Houston doctors a definitive answer, Lance and his mother do what?
(a) Head to Dallas to be with relatives.
(b) Head back to Austin to clear their minds.
(c) Fly to San Diego to speak with specialists there.
(d) Fly to Indiana to speak with specialists there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an MRI reveal to Lance's doctors?

2. What does Lance accomplish at the age of twenty-one at the Tour de France?

3. What does Lance do after learning he has cancer?

4. When Lance arrives at the hospital in preparation for surgery to remove a cancerous growth, what is he hoping for?

5. Near the end of the chapter "Bad to Worse," what do doctors begin to fear prior to Lance starting chemotherapy?

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