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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the email that Hazel receives from Von Houten’s assistant in Chapter 8, it says that Hazel and her mother and Augustus will be visiting Amsterdam beginning on what day?
(a) April 3
(b) July 14
(c) May 4
(d) June 12

2. In the letter from Peter Van Houten to Augustus in Chapter 7, he writes, “I am in receipt of your electronic mail dated the 14th of April and duly impressed by the Shakespearean complexity of your tragedy. Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid” what?
(a) “Catharsis”
(b) “Virtue”
(c) “Alibi”
(d) “Hamartia”

3. Who is the “perennially strong appendiceal cancer survivor” that fills in Hazel on the latest events at the cancer support group meeting in Chapter 9?
(a) Lida
(b) Michael
(c) Susan
(d) Sarah

4. What is the name of the hamster in An Imperial Affliction that Hazel asks about in her email to the author in Chapter 5?
(a) Sisyphus
(b) Herman
(c) Eurydice
(d) Homer

5. What is the name of the video game Augustus and Isaac are playing when Hazel arrives in Chapter 4?
(a) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
(b) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
(c) Counterinsurgence 2: The Price of Dawn
(d) Final Fantasy VII

Short Answer Questions

1. What poet is the lecture about in Hazel’s Twentieth-Century American Poetry class in Chapter 4?

2. What is the name of the narrator of An Imperial Affliction, according to Hazel in Chapter 4?

3. What is Hazel’s mother doing when Hazel calls to her after reading Von Houten’s assistant’s email in Chapter 8?

4. Isaac is said to live in a small ranch house in what neighborhood in Chapter 9?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Augustus reveal to Hazel when he sees her in the hospital in Chapter 7? How does she respond?

2. What internal conflict causes Hazel to call her friend Kaitlyn in Chapter 6?

3. What holiday does Hazel’s mother declare in Chapter 3? How does Hazel decide to celebrate?

4. What information about Peter Van Houten does Augustus relate to Hazel in Chapter 5?

5. Why is Hazel taken to the hospital in Chapter 7? What does she learn about her condition when she awakens in ICU?

6. What is foreshadowed by Hazel’s visit to the support group in Chapter 9?

7. What does Hazel say she considers depression to be a side effect of in Chapter 1?

8. What does Hazel learn about her trip to Amsterdam at the end of Chapter 8?

9. How does the relationship between Hazel and Augustus progress in Chapter 6? What fears does Hazel exhibit about Augustus?

10. What do Isaac and Hazel discuss at the support group meeting in Chapter 9?

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