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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Peter Van Houten have to drink when he invites Hazel and Augustus into his home in Chapter 12?
(a) Lemonade
(b) Coffee
(c) Tea
(d) Scotch

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

4. 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) Derek Wellington
(c) Mrs. Lancaster
(d) Peter Van Houten

5. What is the name of the tube that connects to Hazel’s oxygen tank and is inserted into her nostrils for breathing?
(a) Cannula
(b) Cantone
(c) Pinnacle
(d) Partition

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

7. In the opening of Chapter 20, Hazel says, “One of the less bullshitty conventions of the cancer kid genre is” what?
(a) “The Eulogy convention”
(b) “The Make-a-Wish convention”
(c) “The Last Good Day convention”
(d) “The Last Man Standing convention”

8. Hazel tells Augustus in the end of Chapter 13, “I don’t think you’re dying. I think you’ve just got” what?
(a) “A touch of cancer”
(b) “Bad luck”
(c) “A rough patch ahead”
(d) “A lot of fighting to do”

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

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

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

12. Where does Augustus ask Hazel to meet him at 8:00 p.m. when he calls in Chapter 20?
(a) The movie theater
(b) Children’s Hospital
(c) Memorial Hospital
(d) The Literal Heart of Jesus

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

14. Where does Hazel’s mother say she’s going to visit while Hazel and Augustus go to meet Peter Van Houten in Chapter 12?
(a) The Louvre
(b) The Anne Frank House
(c) The Van Gogh Museum
(d) The Rijksmuseum

15. In the following excerpt from Chapter 13, what literary technique is used? “[H]e broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning…”
(a) Dramatic irony
(b) Anticlimax
(c) Simile
(d) Literary allusion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. Hazel says in Chapter 21, “When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is” what?

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