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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “NEC” stand for in the narrative?
(a) “National education committee”
(b) “Negative entropy cancer”
(c) “National environmental committee”
(d) “No evidence of cancer”

2. What is the name of the little girl that asks Hazel about her oxygen device at the mall in Chapter 3?
(a) Anna
(b) Sarah
(c) Jackie
(d) Jennifer

3. The word “ontology” from Chapter 12 refers to a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of what?
(a) Mythology
(b) Religious belief
(c) Existence
(d) Cancer

4. What is the name of the hamster in An Imperial Affliction that Hazel asks about in her email to the author in Chapter 5?
(a) Eurydice
(b) Homer
(c) Sisyphus
(d) Herman

5. Hazel wears a t-shirt with a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by whom in Chapter 12?
(a) Salvador Dali
(b) Paul Éluard
(c) Jacques Baron
(d) Rene Magritte

Short Answer Questions

1. In his letter to Augustus in Chapter 7, Von Houten writes, “Language buries, but does not” what?

2. Who is the “perennially strong appendiceal cancer survivor” that fills in Hazel on the latest events at the cancer support group meeting in Chapter 9?

3. The protagonist in the book that Augustus lent Hazel is described in Chapter 3 as killing how many people in 284 pages?

4. What does Hazel describe as the only constellation she can recognize in Chapter 5?

5. Isaac is said to live in a small ranch house in what neighborhood in Chapter 9?

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