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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the minister introduce Hazel at Augustus’s funeral in Chapter 22?
(a) “Augustus’s special friend”
(b) “Augustus’s fiancée”
(c) "Augustus’s girlfriend”
(d) “Augustus’s sister”

4. Who does Peter Von Houten describe in Chapter 23 as “the youngest nonmartyr saint ever beatified by the Catholic Church”?
(a) Barbara da Costa
(b) Gracia Monteiro da Fonseca
(c) Antonietta Meo
(d) Adelaide of Italy

5. What song by the band The Hectic Glow is played at Augustus’s funeral in Chapter 22?
(a) “Secret Love Song”
(b) “Forever Away”
(c) “The New Partner”
(d) “I Will Follow You”

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

7. What word from Chapter 13 refers to the disintegration, collapse, or breakdown of norms of thought or behavior?
(a) Fragmentation
(b) Personification
(c) Adulteration
(d) Intensification

8. What hospital is Augustus taken to when he goes to the ER with chest pain in Chapter 15?
(a) Children’s Hospital
(b) Anderson Hospital
(c) Memorial Hospital
(d) St. Jude’s Hospital

9. Hazel says in Chapter 21 of the people writing on Augustus’s social media wall after his death, “I knew these people were genuinely sad, and that I wasn’t really mad at them. I was mad at” what?
(a) “Augustus for leaving me”
(b) “The universe”
(c) “My family”
(d) “Myself”

10. What is served for dinner at Augustus’s house when Hazel and her parents visit in Chapter 15?
(a) Stuffed peppers
(b) Rack of lamb
(c) Enchiladas
(d) Roasted turkey

11. Peter Von Houten tells Hazel in Chapter 23 that she reminds him of whom?
(a) Sarah
(b) Lidewij
(c) Anna
(d) Elizabeth

12. Who does the waiter say paid the bill for Hazel and Augustus’s dinner at the fancy restaurant in Chapter 11?
(a) Lidewij Vliegenthart
(b) Peter Van Houten
(c) Mrs. Lancaster
(d) Derek Wellington

13. At Augustus’s funeral, he is dressed in the same suit that he wore previously where?
(a) To the first group meeting he attended
(b) To his mother’s funeral
(c) To Oranjee
(d) To visit Peter Van Houten

14. What kind of treatment does Augustus say he gave up in order to go to Amsterdam in Chapter 13?
(a) Palliative chemotherapy
(b) Antimetabolite chemotherapy
(c) Epirubicin chemotherapy
(d) Hyperthermia therapy

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hazel slip into Augustus’s coffin at his funeral in Chapter 22?

3. In his final letter to Von Houten that Hazel reads in Chapter 25, Augustus has written, “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in” what?

4. Where do Hazel and her parents go on a picnic in Chapter 25?

5. At about what time does Augustus call Hazel in Chapter 20?

(see the answer keys)

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