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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. Lucy was fired from her job in which city?

2. What did Ann never believe?

3. What was the plastic surgeon in Nashville unable to do for Lucy?

4. Lucy was considering a new surgery that would take a ______________ from her body to form her jaw.

5. Where does Ann move to in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the radical surgery Lucy was considering and later told Ann and Karl about?

2. Why was Lucy so pleased when Ann began to date a doctor in Nashville?

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

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

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

6. Why did Lucy begin to contemplate suicide?

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

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

9. Even though she had career success, Lucy felt that romantic love was missing in her life. What did she do to try to remedy that situation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Lucy's life? How did it affect her? How does it affect those impacted by Lucy's abuse? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the overall setting and time period for Ann and Lucy's friendship? What were some of the places they shared? What were some places that they experienced separately? How important are the time period and settings to the attitudes and issues of Ann and Lucy?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ann and Lucy. In what ways were they alike? In what ways were they dramatically different? What drew them together initially? What was the basis of their long-term friendship? Was the friendship an equitable one? Explain.

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