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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter Van Houten quotes from which of Shakespeare’s sonnets in his letter to Augustus in Chapter 7?
(a) The forty-third sonnet
(b) The fifteenth sonnet
(c) The fifty-fifth sonnet
(d) The thirty-ninth sonnet

2. Isaac is said to live in a small ranch house in what neighborhood in Chapter 9?
(a) Greenwich Village
(b) Northgate
(c) The Upper East Side
(d) Meridian Hills

3. 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”

4. In Hazel’s American Literature class that she attends in the beginning of Chapter 3, the lecture is about what social reformer?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Susan B. Anthony
(c) Harriet Tubman
(d) Frederick Douglass

5. How many pages is An Imperial Affliction said to be in Chapter 4?
(a) 213
(b) 591
(c) 651
(d) 453

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the “cute, chubby girl” with a scar extending from the side of her nose and across her face that is at the meeting in Chapter 9?

2. Who does Hazel call to tell about Augustus’s death in Chapter 21?

3. What illness led to Augustus’s ex-girlfriend’s death?

4. Where do Hazel, her mother, and Augustus change planes on their trip to Amsterdam in Chapter 10?

5. Where does Hazel say her parents met while in the Peace Corps in Chapter 5?

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