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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. When Isaac greets Augustus and asks how he is doing in Chapter 14, Augustus says that everything tastes like what?
2. What kind of treatment does Augustus say he gave up in order to go to Amsterdam in Chapter 13?
3. What do Augustus and Hazel take with them when they visit the Funky Bones sculpture in Chapter 15?
4. Hazel says in Chapter 23, “I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus when Gus told us that he feared” what?
5. Hazel wears a t-shirt with a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by whom in Chapter 12?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hazel encounter when she enters the support group meeting area in Chapter 20?
2. Where is Augustus when he dies in Chapter 21? How does Hazel learn of his death?
3. What do Hazel and Isaac discuss when Hazel visits him in Chapter 23?
4. Why does Augustus’s father call Hazel in Chapter 24? How does Hazel respond?
5. What leads to Augustus’s hospitalization in Chapter 15? What does Hazel learn when she visits him there?
6. How is Hazel’s experience at the Anne Frank House described in Chapter 12?
7. How is Peter Van Houten’s appearance and demeanor described when he appears in Hazel’s car in Chapter 23?
8. What does Augustus reveal to Hazel about the state of his health in Chapter 13?
9. What does Mrs. Lancaster reveal to Hazel about her future in Chapter 24? How does Hazel respond?
10. How is the restaurant Oranjee described in Chapter 11? What do Hazel and Augustus have here?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the literary allusion to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in the title of The Fault in Our Stars. Why does the author choose to allude to this play by Shakespeare? What is the full line and context from which the title is derived? How do the themes in Julius Caesar relate to the themes in The Fault in Our Stars?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the theme of family in The Fault in Our Stars. What role does family play in the lives of the main characters of the novel? How would you describe the importance of family support for these characters? How does the concept of family differ for the characters that are facing cancer from the characters that are not?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss osteosarcoma, the type of cancer that affects Augustus Waters in the novel. What are the causes, symptoms, forms of treatment, and prognosis of the disease? What new experimental treatments have been developed for osteosarcoma in the past decade? What treatments does Augustus undergo?
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