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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lucy asked her psychiatrists if she was pretty and if _______________________.
(a) She would ever have sex again.
(b) They could give her something to help her sleep.
(c) She should find a new career.
(d) She would die young.

2. When Lucy lost her apartment, to what city did she move?
(a) Grand Rapids.
(b) Pittsfield.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Danbury.

3. What disease did Ann get in Chapter 14?
(a) Chicken Pox.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Measles.
(d) Influenza.

4. What did Lucy say she would do after her surgeries?
(a) Move to Provence.
(b) Find love.
(c) Learn to cook.
(d) Learn French.

5. What did Ann learn when her face was covered with hives and her eye swollen shut?
(a) How Lucy must struggle with her face all the time.
(b) People are not really cruel when they stare.
(c) She cannot eat shellfish again.
(d) She should have remembered to bring her antihistamines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often did Ann hear from Lucy in Chapter 17?

2. Ann recalled that she and Lucy __________________ while in Iowa.

3. What did Lucy call the guest room in Ann's new house?

4. Why did Ann not tell Lucy that she was going to the movie premiere?

5. On what day did Lucy die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How well did Lucy manage her finances?

2. How did Ann naively view Lucy's drug addiction and suicide attempts?

3. What did Karl, Ann's boyfriend, say that he could help Lucy attain with her health issues?

4. Describe Lucy's health in Chapter 15.

5. Why did Lucy begin to contemplate suicide?

6. What happened with Lucy's job in Bennington, and what did she do when she moved to Brooklyn?

7. Why was Ann the symbol of innocence in the book and Lucy the loss of innocence?

8. What was the main question Lucy asked her psychiatrists when she saw them?

9. What was Lucy's first suicide attempt, and how did she try to convince Ann that her life was better?

10. What did Ann find especially alarming when Lucy read an essay at a Provincetown reading?

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