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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. Where did Ann go to attend the movie premiere?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York City.
(d) Milan.

2. What did Ann give to Lucy to help her?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Airline ticket.
(d) A car.

3. Why did Ann have Lucy moved to a different hospital room?
(a) It had too many windows.
(b) It was too noisy by the nurses station.
(c) Her roommate was an intrusive woman.
(d) It had no air conditioning.

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

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 should have remembered to bring her antihistamines.
(d) She cannot eat shellfish again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lucy love to talk about?

2. What did Ann never believe?

3. Why did people stare at Ann when she went to New York to be with Lucy during the surgery?

4. Lucy published a book of __________________ that did not do well.

5. How good was Lucy at managing her finances?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lucy reveal to Ann about her heroin use and her suicide wish?

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

3. What kind of help did Lucy seek for her addictions, and how did she lie about what she was really doing?

4. Describe Lucy's health in Chapter 15.

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

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

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

8. How did Ann choose to think about Lucy after her death?

9. What were the circumstances of Lucy's death?

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

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