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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years ago does Peter Von Houten say his daughter died in Chapter 23?
(a) 34 years ago
(b) 3 years ago
(c) 22 years ago
(d) 12 years ago

2. What is referred to on the bottom portion of “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” in Chapter 13?
(a) “Esteem needs”
(b) “Physiological needs”
(c) “Self-actualizing needs”
(d) “Security”

3. How many years’ worth of fan mail does Peter Van Houten say he has piled up in his home in Chapter 12?
(a) 5
(b) 18
(c) 25
(d) 12

4. The cab driver tells Hazel’s mother in Chapter 11, “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of” what?
(a) “Love”
(b) “Intelligence”
(c) “Tolerance”
(d) “Freedom”

5. Where was Augustus when he died, according to the narrator in Chapter 21?
(a) His grandmother’s home
(b) His home
(c) Memorial Hospital
(d) Children’s Hospital

6. At what time does Augustus’s mother call Hazel to tell her that Augustus has died in Chapter 21?
(a) 12:00 a.m.
(b) 1:20 a.m.
(c) 3:30 a.m.
(d) 4:00 a.m.

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

8. What is Peter Van Houten described as wearing at Augustus’s funeral in Chapter 22?
(a) A blue polyester suit
(b) A brown linen suit
(c) A black silk suit.
(d) A white linen suit

9. When Hazel goes to Isaac’s house in Chapter 23, he says his mother took his brother where?
(a) To the movies
(b) To the bookstore
(c) To church
(d) To the hospital

10. How many marriages end in the year after a child’s death, according to Hazel in Chapter 23?
(a) One third
(b) One sixth
(c) One half
(d) One quarter

11. What is described in the second section of the triangle from the top on “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” in Chapter 13?
(a) “Physiological needs”
(b) “Self-actualizing needs”
(c) “Security”
(d) “Esteem needs”

12. Augustus says in Chapter 14 that his science teacher in middle school taught them that the wind blows how fast inside of clouds?
(a) 75 miles per hour
(b) 200 miles per hour
(c) 50 miles per hour
(d) 150 miles per hour

13. Whose car do Augustus, Hazel, and Isaac go to egg in Chapter 14?
(a) Monica’s
(b) Mr. Lancaster’s
(c) Dr. Jim’s
(d) Peter Van Houten’s

14. On what day of the week is Augustus’s funeral set to be in Chapter 21?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Thursday
(d) Tuesday

15. What character from An Imperial Affliction does Hazel try to dress like when she goes to meet Peter Van Houten in Chapter 12?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Sarah
(c) Anna
(d) Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hazel watch on television with her parents in Chapter 24?

2. After telling Hazel about his recurrence of cancer in Chapter 13, Augustus claims that “The world is not” what?

3. In Isaac’s eulogy for Augustus in Chapter 22, he says that Augustus “was the Mayor of the Secret City of” what?

4. What kind of cancer does Peter Von Houten say Augustus had in Chapter 23?

5. Hazel wears a t-shirt with a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by whom in Chapter 12?

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