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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 percent did most people believe in Chapter 35 was the odds of a clincial trial working?

2. How much would have the scorpion venom Dr. Chang recommended have cost a month?

3. In Chapter 34, where were the mice moved to that were used to do research on Julie's cancer cells?

4. What was Julie's sister's occupation by training?

5. What was the name of the owner of the boat that Julie's family took from Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Julie vow when she started writing about her journey with cancer?

2. Why did Bangladesh have a significance to Julie?

3. What did Julie say about the dog the family got in Chapter 34?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 32, when did Julie have scans, and what were the results?

5. In Chapter 23, why did Julie fight cancer?

6. Why did Julie and Josh want to buy an apartment next door when it came available?

7. In Chapter 33, what did Julie write about sharing the ugly part of her journey?

8. What did Julie remember in Chapter 31 happened when she was hungry and was on the boat from Vietnam to Hong Kong?

9. In Chapter 31, when did Lyna, Julie's sister go to America?

10. Why did Julie tell Mia the story about how hard she had worked to overcome her visual handicap?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Julie’s scans showed that her tumors were increasing and getting larger. What did the scan results mean? What would happen if Julie did not continue treatment? What process did she follow to determine her course of action?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Julie was born blind. Why did Julie feel defective as a person? How did feeling defective affect her sense of self-worth?

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