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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hazel describes “the absolutely inhuman nihilism of” what, in Chapter 23?
(a) “Cancer”
(b) “Suffering”
(c) “Love”
(d) “Revenge”

2. What word from Chapter 20 means “unyielding” or “unalterable”?
(a) Inexorable
(b) Tolerable
(c) Adulterated
(d) Insinuated

3. What word from Chapter 14 means “rightfulness” or “legality”?
(a) Allegorical
(b) Entropy
(c) Adulterated
(d) Legitimacy

4. Where does Augustus describe ten thousand corpses following the explosion of a volcano in Chapter 14?
(a) Alaska
(b) Jordan
(c) Hawaii
(d) Pompeii

5. What museum does Augustus recommend Hazel visit in Chapter 13?
(a) The Rijksmuseum
(b) The Guggenheim Museum
(c) The Prado Museum
(d) The Van Gogh Museum

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

7. Who is the author of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) T. S. Elliot
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Walt Whitman

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

9. What is the house number of Peter Van Houten’s residence in Chapter 12?
(a) 541
(b) 158
(c) 32
(d) 129

10. What poem does Hazel recite to Augustus as they wait for the ambulance in Chapter 18?
(a) “The Raven”
(b) “The Red Wheelbarrow”
(c) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
(d) “Annabel Lee”

11. After Hazel calls 911 in Chapter 18, Augustus says, “Where is my chance to be somebody’s” what?
(a) “Lidewij Vliegenthart”
(b) “Mother Teresa”
(c) “Derek Wellington”
(d) “Peter Van Houten”

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) 200 miles per hour
(b) 150 miles per hour
(c) 75 miles per hour
(d) 50 miles per hour

13. What is the name of the room that Hazel and her mother stay in at the hotel in Amsterdam?
(a) The Kierkegaard
(b) The Kafka
(c) The Hermit
(d) The Heidegger

14. What century does the cab driver describe as the “Golden Age” in Chapter 11?
(a) The 16th century
(b) The 17th century
(c) The 18th century
(d) The 12th century

15. Who does Hazel send an email to after hanging up the phone with Kaitlyn in Chapter 25?
(a) Augustus’s mother
(b) Lidewij Vliegenthart
(c) Dr. Jim
(d) Derek Wellington

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the minister introduce Hazel at Augustus’s funeral in Chapter 22?

2. Where does Hazel’s mother say she’s going to visit while Hazel and Augustus go to meet Peter Van Houten in Chapter 12?

3. What kind of treatment does Augustus say he gave up in order to go to Amsterdam in Chapter 13?

4. What character from An Imperial Affliction does Hazel try to dress like when she goes to meet Peter Van Houten in Chapter 12?

5. Augustus interrupts Isaac in Chapter 20 to correct him on Augustus’s age. How old is Augustus?

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