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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. How does Lucy feel about the first seconds of the first chemo treatment?

2. Is Lucy an good athlete?

3. What happens to Lucy as time passes?

4. How does Lucy feel about her first experience of the hospital during that first surgery?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after six months?

2. Who is Lucy's favorite nurse? Why?

3. What happens when Lucy's father loses his job?

4. How does Lucy compare her family to other families?

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

6. Describe Lucy's family's background.

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

8. How does Lucy feel on Fridays?

9. How does Lucy learn she can skip her chemo treatments?

10. How do others treat Lucy's facial deformity?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Lucy and Jan share a love of horses.

Part 1) How does this affect their relationship?

Part 2) How does this lead to a job that Lucy enjoys? How does this bring her some peace?

Part 3) What is the significance of this friendship and this love of horses?

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