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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10, World of Unknowing and The Habits of Self-Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens during the ride home?
(a) Lucy sleeps.
(b) Lucy feels much better.
(c) Lucy and her mother ride in silence.
(d) Lucy often throws up in the mixing bowl kept on the floor of the car for that purpose.

2. What does she seem to believe is wrong?
(a) For her to believe she will need more surgeries.
(b) For her to want her friends to feel sorry for her.
(c) For her to understand why she is depressed.
(d) For her to want something other than her situation.

3. As Lucy observes the actions of the other teenage girls working at the stables, to what conclusion does she come?
(a) She will never have love.
(b) She will never understand them.
(c) She will never be like them.
(d) She does not like them.

4. How does Lucy feel about the first seconds of the first chemo treatment?
(a) They are odd.
(b) They are very scary.
(c) They are almost pleasurable.
(d) They are extremely painful.

5. Lucy says that as a young child, she and Sarah would do what to their father?
(a) Always rush to the door when he came home from work.
(b) Run away from him.
(c) Make him coffee and breakfast in bed.
(d) Always ask for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. After trick-or-treating, what does Lucy do?

2. For a brief period of time, where are her chemo medications stored?

3. When the call comes saying that her father had died, how does the family feel?

4. What happens when Lucy's father becomes ill?

5. As a younger child, what did Lucy want?

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