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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucy's test go?
(a) The surgery does not take place.
(b) With minor complications.
(c) Smoothly.
(d) With major complications.

2. What do Lucy and her mother do for the next two years?
(a) Enjoy each other's company.
(b) Help her catch up in her school work.
(c) Drive into New York City every day for radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
(d) Enroll her in a program for children dealing with cancer.

3. 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 friend.
(b) A doctor.
(c) Her mother.
(d) A book on oncology.

4. Why does Lucy do this?
(a) She wants to spare him this one visit.
(b) She loves when he comes to visit.
(c) She wants him to know she is awake.
(d) He is under a lot of stress.

5. Why does Lucy become dependent on the drugs during this time in the hospital?
(a) Simply as a way of escaping the reality of recovery.
(b) Simply because she is in so much pain.
(c) Simply because they are very addictive.
(d) Simply as a way of escaping her mother.

6. What has Lucy experienced by the time she begins to work there?
(a) She has trained horses for other stables.
(b) She has had several surgeries and her face is oddly shaped.
(c) She has moved many times and has few friends.
(d) She has spent many years around horses.

7. How old was Lucy when her family moved to the United States?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Fourteen.

8. Why is Lucy perplexed when her mother says she will buy her a wig if she wants one?
(a) Her mother does not like wigs.
(b) Her family is short on money, and wigs are expensive.
(c) Her mother wants her to wear a hat.
(d) Her family does not want her to cover her head.

9. Who is the nurse she likes best?
(a) Mary.
(b) Marcy.
(c) Megan.
(d) Martha.

10. What does Lucy call her mother?
(a) Best Friend.
(b) Patient Visitor.
(c) Only Friend.
(d) Visitor Extraordinaire.

11. What happens when Lucy wakes in recovery?
(a) She is feeling better than before surgery.
(b) She finds out that Mary had lied to her about the pain.
(c) She's hurting all over and finds she has had a tracheotomy.
(d) The surgery did not go as planned.

12. Why does Lucy's insurance change?
(a) Her parents cannot afford the current company's premium.
(b) The insurance company drops her.
(c) Her dad loses his job at ABC and is hired by CBS.
(d) Her dad's company drops his insurance.

13. Why does Dr. Canton suggest emergency surgery?
(a) He believes Lucy has a broken jaw.
(b) He believes Lucy has a cyst.
(c) He believes Lucy has cancer.
(d) He believes Lucy has an infection.

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

15. How does Lucy's mother soothe her?
(a) By telling her that she loves her.
(b) By telling her she will be fine.
(c) By telling her to suck it up.
(d) By telling her she mustn't cry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Lucy's twin?

3. How does Lucy later learn why her mother wanted to buy her a wig?

4. Looking back on her time in the hospital, how does she feel?

5. How is Lucy not accustomed to seeing her parents?

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