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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite his performance at the Tour de France at the age of twenty-one, what is Lance unable to do?
(a) Accept defeat.
(b) Repair his bike in time.
(c) Complete the race.
(d) Get along with his teammates.

2. How does Dr. Steven Wolf encourage Lance?
(a) By offering him painkilling herbs.
(b) By asking him for an autograph.
(c) By assuring him he'll live.
(d) By reminding him that he has many treatment options.

3. Lance notes that in addition to being rough and dangerous, training for cycling races require:
(a) Courage and creativity.
(b) Patience and persistence.
(c) Fierceness.
(d) Trickery.

4. At the same time that Lance competes internationally with the U.S. National Team, he competes domestically for:
(a) Radio Shack.
(b) Nike.
(c) Discovery-Atlanta.
(d) Subaru-Montgomery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lance feel about treatment options proposed in Indianapolis?

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

3. What does the Houston doctor say to Lance when the cyclist hesitates?

4. What does Dr. Wolf recommend that Lance do?

5. Instead of giving Houston doctors a definitive answer, Lance and his mother do what?

(see the answer key)

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