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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personal obstacles do Kik and Lance need to overcome to become parents?
(a) Cancer treatments have left Lance sterile.
(b) Both fail background checks.
(c) Kik is afraid to have children.
(d) Lance is too busy with his career to raise a family.

2. The chemo protocol proposed to Lance at Indianapolis would aggressively attack the cancer while:
(a) Strengthening him physically.
(b) Not harming his body as adversely.
(c) Removing any new tumors.
(d) Giving him plenty of rest.

3. What are the chances that Lance will survive his cancer?
(a) Very high.
(b) Extremely low.
(c) Fifty-fifty.
(d) It is practically assured.

4. Why does Lance have trouble fitting into his community and his high school?
(a) He is picked on for being too skinny.
(b) He has a lisp which makes him self-conscious.
(c) He doesn't understand the prevalent football mentality.
(d) His biological father makes life difficult for him.

5. Despite doctors' orders, what does Lance accomplish after being hit by a car?
(a) Gets a new bike.
(b) Completes a charity bike race.
(c) Mends a fracture in record time.
(d) Places third in a triathlon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treatment plan does Lance opt for?

2. In addition to covering Lance's journey through cancer, this book documents the obstacles he overcame to:

3. How does Lance respond to pressure from the Houston doctor?

4. How does Lance regard his biological father?

5. Lance notes that in addition to being rough and dangerous, training for cycling races require:

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