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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 did Randy do to the back seat of his convertible?

2. What sport did Randy love most?

3. How long did Randy have to live when the tumors were found?

4. What did Randy have to sacrifice to get his grade school dream?

5. Whom did Randy quote more than anyone else?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Randy get when Jai rejected him?

2. How did Randy achieve his dream of being in zero gravity?

3. How did Randy choose the clothes for his lecture?

4. What did Randy's parents buy every year? What did this cause Randy to desire?

5. What did Randy paint in high school?

6. What did Randy give away at his lecture? Why?

7. How did Randy spend the day of his lecture?

8. What did the first slide of the lecture show?

9. Why did Randy choose to do the lecture?

10. Why didn't Randy's wife want him to give the lecture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Randy endures many different trials before the end of the book. What are some of these trials and what lessons does he learn through these experiences?

Essay Topic 2

How did Randy educate himself, and what effect did this have on his family?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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