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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. How does the literary figure with Locked-In syndrome get around?
(a) He has a wheelchair.
(b) He crawls.
(c) Servants carry him.
(d) He goes nowhere.

2. What ability does Jean have that most people with his condition do not?
(a) He can swivel his head.
(b) He can swallow.
(c) He can tap his toe.
(d) He can blink his eyes.

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

4. What is the only part of his body the author can move at will?
(a) His right toe.
(b) His left eyelid.
(c) His upper lip.
(d) His left pinky finger.

5. What does Jean not comprehend when he wakes from his coma?
(a) The fate of his family.
(b) His expected lifespan.
(c) His disabilities.
(d) The severity of the situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was being done to Jean when he woke from his coma?

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

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

4. What is the name of the only literary figure with Locked-In syndrome?

5. How does Jean describe Sandrine as a person?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening when Jean awakes from his coma?

2. Where do patients in the hospital get lost, and how does Jean feel when he gets lost?

3. What does Sandrine help Jean to do, and how do the other staff at the hospital respond to this?

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

5. How does Jean communicate, and why?

6. Where has the author spent much of his last year when the book begins?

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

8. What does Jean do to sate his appetite for real food?

9. Who is Eugenie?

10. How does Jean communicate with people who come to visit him?

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