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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Lance is done with chemotherapy, what does he start working on?
(a) Organizing Ride For The Roses, a charity bicycle race.
(b) Organizing Stand Up To Cancer, a cancer telethon.
(c) Training for the Tour DuPont.
(d) Training for the Tour de France.

2. 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) Fifteen percent.
(d) Thirty-five percent.

3. What does Lance do on his honeymoon?
(a) Takes training rides.
(b) Argues with coaches.
(c) Fundraising.
(d) Negotiates contracts.

4. Lance goes from being the racer nobody wants on their team to the:
(a) Son everyone wants to have.
(b) Richest man in the world.
(c) Winner everyone wants to see.
(d) Most popular person in the universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What personal goal do Lance and Kik develop?

2. Even though Lance goes away on a speaking engagement, he constantly:

3. Who is Kelly Davidson?

4. Why does Alain Bondue want to talk with Bill Stapleton, Lance's manager?

5. What line of work is Kik in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Lance received in the United States after winning his first Tour de France?

2. How is the U.S. Postal Team that Lance races with regarded at the start of the Tour de France?

3. What is the Ride for the Roses?

4. What does Lance learn about his post-cancer body as he trains in the mountains for the Tour de France?

5. When Lance trains in Boone, North Carolina, what change in attitude does he develop?

6. When Lance works on getting his foundation going, why is he reluctant to ride competitively again?

7. Describe the day of the birth of Lance's first child.

8. Who is Miguel Indurain, and what does he say about Lance Armstrong?

9. After Lance and Kik marry, where does Lance finally make his official racing return?

10. In between chemotherapy cycles, what does Lance do back in Austin?

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