1. Hazel’s parents come to her room after her outburst at dinner to tell her she is not what, in Chapter 6?
(a) Going to die
(b) A grenade
(c) Going to Amsterdam
(d) Their daughter

2. 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) Sisyphus
(b) Eurydice
(c) Herman
(d) Homer

3. How many days is Hazel kept at the hospital after having the fluid drained from her lungs in Chapter 7?
(a) 4 days
(b) 6 days
(c) 2 days
(d) 10 days

4. Hazel’s parents in Chapter 6 describe her as “a brilliant young reader with a side interest in” what?
(a) “Baseball cards”
(b) “Horrible television shows”
(c) “Miniature golf”
(d) “Poetry and music”

5. What body part has Isaac lost due to cancer, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) His leg
(b) His eye
(c) His hand
(d) His spleen

Short Answer Questions

1. What Shakespearean play does Peter cite in his letter in Chapter 7 with the lines, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves”?

2. The narrator’s mother in An Imperial Affliction is described in Chapter 4 as having an obsession with what kind of flowers?

3. What movie has Hazel come to Augustus’s house to watch in Chapter 2?

4. At what kind of church does Hazel’s cancer support group meet in the novel?

5. By what name does Hazel refer to her regular doctor that her mother takes her to see for depression in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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