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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. Who does Jean compare himself to in literature?
(a) Sherlock Holmes.
(b) Noirtier.
(c) Pip.
(d) Robin Hood.

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

3. What was being done to Jean when he woke from his coma?
(a) His eye was being sewn shut.
(b) His feeding tube was being changed.
(c) He was being bathed.
(d) His family was praying for him.

4. Why was something being done to Jean when he woke from his coma?
(a) He was bathed every day.
(b) To prevent eye damage.
(c) His larynx collapsed the first tube.
(d) They heard he was going to die.

5. What does Jean think when he is put in a wheel chair?
(a) He is glad to be alive.
(b) There is hope after all.
(c) His life will never be the same.
(d) This is his death sentence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of test did Jean take after losing so much weight?

2. What does Jean constantly dream about?

3. How long has the author been confined to bed when the book begins?

4. What is Jean struggling to maintain when Sandrine starts working with him?

5. What does Jean compare his life at the hospital to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jean wakes up from his coma?

2. What major accomplishment does Jean do with Sandrine's help, and who is notified about this?

3. Where does Jean usually see all the other patients from his corridor, and how does he feel about those moments?

4. How does Jean communicate, and why?

5. How does Jean describe his father's apartment?

6. What does Jean imagine Eugenie doing?

7. Who is Eugenie?

8. How does Jean describe his corridor of the hospital?

9. What does Brigitte do for Jean at the end of each visit?

10. What kind of creature does Jean compare himself to and why?

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