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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grades in school does Lucy mostly miss?
(a) Fourth and Fifth.
(b) Third and Fourth.
(c) Fifth and Sixth.
(d) Second and Third.

2. About what is all Lucy cares?
(a) Having time away from school and the taunts of the boys.
(b) Getting her schoolwork done.
(c) Having a pretty face.
(d) Getting better.

3. What happens during the end of her freshman year and the following summer?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) The usual.
(c) She adjusts to her looks.
(d) Some changes take place.

4. When Jude breaks up with her, and she takes a long look at herself in the mirror, what does she realize?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) Her bone graft is being reabsorbed like the other grafts.
(c) She is uglier than she expected.
(d) Her bone graft is still doing well.

5. She says that after that revelation, what does she do?
(a) She always tells him how great he is.
(b) She always makes a point to greet him.
(c) She always tells him she loves him.
(d) She always tells him how much she needs him.

6. What happens to Lucy's self-esteem at that point?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It is slowly improving.
(c) It sinks as low as she can imagine.
(d) It is the same.

7. At his urging, what does Lucy do?
(a) She studies poetry.
(b) She looks into new surgery options.
(c) She goes to grad school.
(d) She dresses differently and eventually begins to see herself as a woman.

8. To whose situation does Lucy compare her own?
(a) Michaela's.
(b) Marsha's.
(c) Michelle's.
(d) Michael's.

9. When Lucy arrives home what does her mother have for her?
(a) Turtlenecks for her to wear during the summer.
(b) Jars of scar cream.
(c) Wigs.
(d) Many scarves.

10. What does Lucy realize about her father?
(a) Just how distant he had been in her life.
(b) Just how much she misses him and what a gap his death has left in her life.
(c) Just how much her mother misses him.
(d) Just how different they had been.

11. Where does she have a row of staples?
(a) On her head.
(b) On her hip.
(c) On her stomach.
(d) On her elbow.

12. With whom does Lucy share a love of horses?
(a) Joni.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Jan.

13. How do the boys tease her?
(a) By telling her she is a monster.
(b) By telling her she would be good in a scary movie.
(c) By telling her to take off that mask.
(d) By telling her she scares them.

14. What does Dr. Baker propose?
(a) Taking skin from a corpse.
(b) The pedestal method.
(c) Growing her skin in a petrie dish.
(d) Cutting skin from Lucy's hip and grafting it to her jaw.

15. What has Lucy become unable to control?
(a) Her mother's reactions to her treatments.
(b) Her crying through the treatments.
(c) Her excitement to be at the hospital.
(d) Her desire to be away from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. As she continues to battle through operations aimed at reconstruction, on what does she pin all her hopes?

2. Why does Lucy say she no longer needs anyone to say anything to her?

3. Lucy says that as a young child, she and Sarah would do what to their father?

4. Is Lucy sympathetic of others as she faces her own crisis?

5. How long would the process take to complete?

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