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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Lance's and Kik's first interactions go?
(a) Their assistants talk for them.
(b) Very smoothly.
(c) They don't know what to talk about.
(d) They argue.

2. How do Kik and Lance end up spending more and more time together?
(a) Working for the foundation.
(b) Lance starts to accompany Kik on her hospital visits.
(c) Kik starts to ride her bike with Lance.
(d) Taking community college classes together.

3. Lance confesses that chemotherapy can make a person feel:
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Paranoid.
(c) Worthless.
(d) Lonely.

4. When Lance returns to racing as a cancer survivor, what does he struggle with?
(a) He'd rather be fundraising for cancer.
(b) His fears are still too great and distracting.
(c) His body has changed and doesn't respond the way it used to.
(d) The majority of his fans have forgotten about him.

5. When Lance finally asks one of his doctors how bad his odds had been with cancer, he learns that doctors had given him what survival chance?
(a) Three percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Thirty-five percent.
(d) Fifteen percent.

6. In the "Kik" chapter, what does Lance pour his time and energy into?
(a) An autobiography.
(b) Learning French.
(c) A cancer foundation.
(d) Improving his golf.

7. LaTrice helps Lance by explaining specifics of his treatment, answering his many questions, and:
(a) Writing his press releases.
(b) Being someone he can confide in.
(c) Sneaking food in for him.
(d) Calling his friends for him.

8. Who is Alain Bondue?
(a) Director of the Cofidis cycling team.
(b) Director of the Motorola cycling team.
(c) Head nurse of the chemo ward.
(d) Doctor who oversees chemo treatments.

9. At the Ruta del Sol cycling race, in what place does Lance finish?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourteenth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Twenty-seventh.

10. After winning his first Tour de France, Lance is flown back to the United States by whom?
(a) Coors.
(b) Nike.
(c) Schwinn.
(d) Adidas.

11. Why is Lance reluctant to ride and train competitively again?
(a) He'd rather devote himself to helping children.
(b) He feels he is too far out of shape.
(c) He's having too much fun with the foundation.
(d) He worries that training will bring the cancer back.

12. Even though others are impressed with Lance's performance upon his return to pro cycling as a cancer survivor, how does he feel about his performance?
(a) He feels depressed because he wants to be a winner.
(b) He feels that he needs to push himself harder.
(c) He feels nobody understands how challenging it is for him to race now.
(d) He feels it's the absolute worst performance of his life.

13. During Lance's chemo treatment, which friend spends as much time with him as possible?
(a) Linda Anderson.
(b) Kristin Richard.
(c) Stanley Wolf.
(d) Jim Ochowicz.

14. Who is Jeff Garvey?
(a) Poet who writes a tribute to Lance.
(b) Professional cyclist who starts a cancer hotline.
(c) Businessman who becomes director of Lance's foundation.
(d) Cycling coach who donates regularly to Lance's foundation.

15. Lance regards LaTrice as his:
(a) Second mom.
(b) One-woman support system.
(c) Connection to the outside world.
(d) Friend and guardian angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. As part of the reconciliation between Jim Hoyt and the cyclist, Lance does what?

2. What does Lance realize when he begins training for the Tour de France as a cancer survivor but ends up in several crashes?

3. Who does Miguel Indurain think will win the Tour de France?

4. While Lance focuses on training and eating right for the Tour de France, Kik focuses on what?

5. What personal goal do Lance and Kik develop?

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