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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. A week after Paul's biopsy, where did Emma go with her kids?

2. What percent of 36 year olds usually got lung cancer?

3. While Emma was gone and Paul was in the ICU in Part 2, Section 3, how did she keep in touch with his doctors?

4. In Part 2, Section 2, after Paul's second CT scan, how long did Emma say he might think about living?

5. What nickname did Paul's father call him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Paul's oncologist's credentials?

2. What happened during the first operation Paul performed when he returned to the operating room in Part 2, Section 2?

3. What message did Paul leave for his daughter?

4. How was Paul able to be in the delivery room with Lucy?

5. What was Paul's first chemotherapy session like?

6. When Paul viewed his first CT scan after his treatments in Part 2, Section 2, how did the scan look compared to his previous scan?

7. What was M&M?

8. How did Paul describe himself and his condition at the beginning of Part 2, Section 4?

9. What did Paul have to face like his own patients and whose help did he need to do that?

10. Why did Paul say that doctors don't give patients specific prognoses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul wondered if he would be able to face death with integrity. In what ways did Paul face death with integrity? What people in his life enabled him to face death with integrity? What role did his character play in helping him face death with integrity?

Essay Topic 2

Paul chose to keep his mental faculties and speech intact, over the health of his body. What steps did Paul and his doctors take to help him retain his mental faculties and speech? Why was it so important to Paul to preserve thought and speech and what did that reveal about him?

Essay Topic 3

Paul's college studies were mainly a search for the meaning of life. How did Paul search for meaning in life and what influences, experiences, and studies lead him to a definition of the meaning of life? How did he define what gave life meaning?

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