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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday does Hazel’s mother say it is when she wakes Hazel in Chapter 3?

2. By what nickname does Isaac call Augustus in the novel?

3. In the online ad that Augustus and Hazel make for the swing set in Chapter 8, they list the current address of the set as near what intersection?

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

5. In his letter to Augustus in Chapter 7, Von Houten writes, “Language buries, but does not” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long does Hazel stay at the hospital in Chapter 7? How is her stay described?

2. Whom does Hazel send an email to in Chapter 5? What does she say in the email?

3. What discussion takes place between Hazel and Isaac at Isaac’s house in Chapter 9?

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

5. What do Hazel and her parents do in the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

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

8. What does Augustus reveal about himself at the cancer support group meeting in Chapter 1?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Nurse Allison in the novel. What does Hazel relate to the reader regarding “good nurses” and “bad nurses”? Into which category does Nurse Allison fall? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the causes, symptoms, prognosis, and treatments for thyroid cancer. When in Chapter 1 does Hazel say she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer? What treatments has she undergone? Which were successful? How has Hazel’s cancer affected her everyday life since she was diagnosed?

Essay Topic 3

Define “irony” and discuss the irony of Augustus’s illness as revealed in Chapter 13. Why did Hazel gloss over her own prognosis? How does the progression of Augustus’s cancer change the relationship between Hazel and Augustus?

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