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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 Ann NOT think contributed to Lucy's depression?
(a) Drinking too much alcohol.
(b) Hardly eating any food.
(c) The death of her mother.
(d) Not getting enough sleep.

2. What did Ann never believe?
(a) Lucy would do heroin.
(b) Lucy would die.
(c) Lucy would lie to her.
(d) Lucy committed suicide.

3. What did Ann demand that Lucy got while in the hospital?
(a) Private suite.
(b) Fewer visitors.
(c) The best doctors.
(d) Pain medication.

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

5. What was the name of Ann's most recent novel?
(a) Summer Breeze.
(b) Belle of the Ball.
(c) Bel Canto.
(d) The Bell Jar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT something Ann and Lucy agreed on during their last conversation?

2. How good was Lucy at managing her finances?

3. What role did Ann assume in Lucy's care?

4. Whom does Ann date in Chapter 11?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Ann show that she was the ultimate mother figure to Lucy after her radical surgery?

4. What was Ann's experience with hives and how did it let her appreciate Lucy's struggles even more?

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

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

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

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

9. How did suicide become top-of-mind for Lucy?

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

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