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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Macbeth
(b) King Lear
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) Julius Caesar

2. Who does Hazel ask her mother to call at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Isaac
(b) Augustus
(c) Dr. Maria
(d) Dr. Jim

3. What kind of car does Augustus drive in Chapter 2?
(a) A Cadillac sedan
(b) A Toyota SUV
(c) A Dodge pickup
(d) A Ford SUV

4. What poet is the lecture about in Hazel’s Twentieth-Century American Poetry class in Chapter 4?
(a) Sylvia Plath
(b) T. S. Elliot
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Emily Dickinson

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

6. What game does Hazel play with Isaac at his house in Chapter 9?
(a) Mario Brothers
(b) Cool Boarders
(c) Vice City
(d) Deception

7. What is the name of Isaac’s little brother who interrupts the video game in Chapter 9?
(a) Graham
(b) Patrick
(c) Gerry
(d) Peter

8. What holiday does Hazel’s mother say it is when she wakes Hazel in Chapter 3?
(a) Hazel’s thirty-third half-birthday
(b) Hazel’s mother and father’s anniversary
(c) The anniversary of Hazel’s remission
(d) Christmas Eve

9. What does Hazel say she was diagnosed with at age thirteen in Chapter 2?
(a) Stage IV thyroid cancer
(b) Stage IV leukemia
(c) Stage III diabetes
(d) Stage II lung cancer

10. Augustus claims that he’s a bad driver because he has to drive how, in Chapter 2?
(a) With his left leg
(b) Without the use of his legs
(c) Without the use of his hands
(d) While using an oxygen tank

11. What movie star does Augustus frequently compare Hazel to in the novel?
(a) Helena Bonham Carter
(b) Angelina Jolie
(c) Meryl Streep
(d) Natalie Portman

12. What twelve-year-old leukemic does Hazel learn has passed away at the support group meeting in Chapter 9?
(a) Peter
(b) Paul
(c) Michael
(d) Jason

13. The narrator’s mother in An Imperial Affliction is described in Chapter 4 as having an obsession with what kind of flowers?
(a) Roses
(b) Daffodils
(c) Tulips
(d) Carnations

14. In the beginning of Chapter 3, Hazel says she stayed up late that night reading what book?
(a) Roses amongst the Marigolds
(b) Under the Seashell Lake
(c) The Price of Dawn
(d) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

15. 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?
(a) Monica
(b) Susan
(c) Deborah
(d) Allison

Short Answer Questions

1. Augustus claims he passed the driving test on which attempt in Chapter 2?

2. What does “BiPAP” stand for in the narrative?

3. An Imperial Affliction is a novel about a girl who lives in what U.S. state?

4. What school does Augustus say he attends in Chapter 2?

5. What is the name of the leader of the support group that Hazel attends in the novel?

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