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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. When the insurance from her father's new job begins, why is she relieved?

2. Who do not belong together for the long-term?

3. How does Lucy try to counter her weight loss?

4. How does Lucy say that she got the job?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lucy appear when her parents come for her birthday?

2. Describe Lucy.

3. When does she miss a chemo treatment? How does she feel about this?

4. How does Lucy feel about her weeks and the days in between her chemo treatments?

5. What does Lucy do to try to skip her chemo treatments?

6. How does Lucy feel about moving into another ward?

7. What does Lucy begin to notice on her mouth? How else is she affected by the chemo?

8. How do both Lucy's mother and her mother's friends try to help her deal with her hair loss?

9. Who does Lucy meet in the hospital?

10. What do Lucy and her mother do for the next two years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy graduates from Sarah Lawrence.

Part 1) Describe her experience at Sarah Lawrence. How do her experiences differ from what she hoped she would find at Sarah Lawrence?

Part 2) How do her years at Sarah Lawrence end? Happily? With regret? Why? What is the next step she takes after college? Why does she choose this?

Part 3) How does this next step lead her to Jude and a change in the way she sees herself?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy analyzes the relationship between the visitor and the patient.

Part 1) How does she come to analyze this relationship?

Part 2) To what conclusion does she come? Why?

Part 3) How does this conclusion affect the visits she receives from her parents? How does it also help her deal with her parents?

Essay Topic 3

Lucy receives words of encouragement from people through letters and cards.

Part 1) What do these cards and letters say? Why do these people send these to her?

Part 2) How is she affected by these cards and letters? Why is she affected this way?

Part 3) What does this say about the importance of faith?

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