View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the syndrome the author suffers after his stroke?

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

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

5. How did Sandrine best help Jean?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would Jean end the play he wanted to write about his hospital experience?

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

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

4. What does Jean dream a lot about while in the hospital?

5. What causes Jean discomfort, and how is this discomfort relieved?

6. Why does Jean think he dreams about certain things repeatedly while in the hospital?

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

8. What happened to Jean on December 6th?

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

10. Who is Eugenie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Jean able to communicate with others after his stroke, and how has this changed his life?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Empress Eugenie, and how does she affect Jean during his first months after waking up from his coma?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think is the main message Jean wants to send through the narration of his experience with his stroke?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 565 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample