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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. Which of the following did Lucy NOT want to do?
(a) Drive her car into a tree.
(b) Take Percoset.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Cook Thanksgiving dinner.

2. Which of the following was NOT something Ann and Lucy agreed on during their last conversation?
(a) Ann would name her daughter Lucy.
(b) They missed each other.
(c) They agreed to talk every day.
(d) They loved each other.

3. Lucy was embarrassed that Ann saw ______________________.
(a) Her kissing Eli.
(b) Her bank statement.
(c) Her mother's letter.
(d) The inside of her mouth.

4. Why did Ann not tell Lucy that she was going to the movie premiere?
(a) The event was invitation only.
(b) She wanted to have fun and avoid embarrassment.
(c) Lucy was too ill to go.
(d) Lucy would not have approved.

5. Why was Lucy upset on September 11, 2001.
(a) She had friends killed in the twin towers.
(b) She felt so hopeless to help the situation.
(c) Her father was a fireman who was injured that day.
(d) She felt left out because she was not in Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ann take the man she dates to meet Lucy in 1994?

2. Ann believed Lucy was a poet and _______________.

3. What did Lucy attend in Chapter 18?

4. What did Lucy start to do after she was told that the surgeons could not help her anymore?

5. Ann finally realized that she was _______________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What name did Ann and Lucy come up with to describe their bad times with Lucy's addictions and suicide attempts?

3. What was the content of Ann and Lucy's last phone conversation?

4. Where did Lucy go for rehab, and how did she feel about it?

5. Why did Lucy begin to contemplate suicide?

6. How did Lucy's death make Ann finally realize her own naivete?

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

8. In reality, what were Karl and others not able to help Lucy with regarding her health issues?

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

10. What was the final defeat in Lucy's struggle to have her face reconstructed?

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