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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 was the date in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 5, how often would Julie go in for Oxaliplatin?

3. In Chapter 15, what was the name of the car salesman from whom Josh and Julie bought a car?

4. What did Julie want to make like the one she and Josh ate in Paris?

5. How old was Julie's great-grandmother when they fled Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Julie give her daughters in Chapter 2?

2. How did Julie and her family get from Vietnam to Hong Kong?

3. What did Julie's grandmother order her parents to do when she was two months old?

4. Why would Julie have not gone to Garfield Medical Center ER when she got sick in Los Angeles in Chapter 16?

5. What was the closest that Julie came to organized religion growing up?

6. What metaphor did Julie say that those who faced cancer used in Chapter 12?

7. In the Prologue, how did Julie describe her life?

8. Where and when was Julie born?

9. In Chapter 3, why did Julie end up in the ER instead of at a family wedding?

10. Why did Julie give up cooking in Chapter 15?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Julie had questions about what it meant to be courageous. What questions did Julie have regarding what it meant to be courageous? Why did she have trouble deciding the best way to be a person of courage?

Essay Topic 2

Julie referred to William Wordsworth’s poem Ode on Intimations of Immortality in Chapter 4. What did the poem mean to her and represent to her?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not biography?

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