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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4, The Tao of Laugh-In and Fear Itself.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucy learn, as a teenager, that there's a five percent survival rate for victims of Ewing's sarcoma, the disease Lucy battled?
(a) A book on oncology.
(b) A friend.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does no one, even her boss, Ms. Daniels, seem to think is a bad idea?
(a) Having her ride horses.
(b) Having her lead ponies around.
(c) Having her around children.
(d) Having her train horses.

3. How does Lucy describe the radiation treatments?
(a) As worrisome.
(b) As a breeze.
(c) As a nuisance.
(d) As painful.

4. What must Lucy endure while working there?
(a) Very little pay.
(b) Mean horses.
(c) Annoying girls.
(d) Pony parties.

5. What is Lucy's family constantly facing?
(a) Money problems.
(b) A law suit from Joni's family.
(c) Ridicule from the neighbors.
(d) One problem after another.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Lucy been acquainted with the idea of death?

2. What does Lucy say begins to revive her?

3. What is one of Lucy's family's oddities?

4. Why does Lucy do this?

5. What television show has a recurring skit about a man who climbs a mountain to ask a guru for the meaning of life.

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