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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean compare the patients in his corridor to?
(a) Broken winged birds.
(b) The living dead.
(c) Clean slates.
(d) Butterflies.

2. What does Jean say clutters his father's place?
(a) Memories.
(b) Dirty dishes.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Books.

3. How will Jean need to be fed after losing too much weight?
(a) Through a tube.
(b) Through vitamin pills.
(c) With vomit reducers.
(d) With an all liquid diet.

4. When did Jean imagine Eugenie talking to him?
(a) In his dreams.
(b) When he was alone in his room.
(c) When he read a book about her.
(d) When he saw the stained glass window.

5. What was Eugenie's title?
(a) Countess.
(b) Duchess.
(c) Princess.
(d) Empress.

6. What is the weather like when Jean wakes from his coma?
(a) Dry but cold.
(b) Warm and sunny.
(c) Cold and rainy.
(d) Warm and humid.

7. Which of Jean's systems is most likely to fully recover?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Respiratory.
(c) Circulatory.
(d) Neurological.

8. How did Sandrine best help Jean?
(a) She helps him be able to move his mouth.
(b) She made the blinking code.
(c) She creates a letter chain for him.
(d) She helped him find a way to escape.

9. Where does Jean feel the most trapped?
(a) His room.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The bed.
(d) His body.

10. How does Jean use the recipe his friend sends him while he is in the hospital?
(a) He memorizes it for when he gets better.
(b) He imagines making the recipe.
(c) He asks a nurse to make it for him.
(d) He stares at the picture for hours.

11. What two words does Jean use to describe the times when all the patients from his corridor are together?
(a) Hopeful and happy.
(b) Noisy and gruesome.
(c) Horrifying and fascinating.
(d) Awful and wonderful.

12. What shows Jean the amount of love that the world has for him?
(a) The gifts and flowers sent.
(b) The amount of visitors he gets.
(c) The news articles.
(d) The prayers offered on his behalf.

13. What is Jean struggling to maintain when Sandrine starts working with him?
(a) His physical abilities.
(b) His motivation to progress.
(c) His positive outlook.
(d) His hope.

14. What does Jean first want to write about his time in the hospital?
(a) A play.
(b) A novel.
(c) A poem.
(d) A short story.

15. What does Jean think about one particular dream he had before his stroke?
(a) It was foretelling his stroke.
(b) It was a warning to love his family.
(c) It was the image of what he really wanted.
(d) It showed how he would die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean say he prefers to do on his own clothes?

2. What does Jean do to signify which letter he is looking for?

3. What recipe does a friend send to Jean while he is in the hospital?

4. What is the first thing Jean learns to say after his stroke?

5. Where do the nutrients given to Jean need go directly?

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