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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. What surgery does this surgeon want to use?

2. Why is Lucy finally sent to the ICU?

3. Why does Lucy often pull someone aside?

4. Does Lucy ask her mother about Teresa's comment?

5. What has Lucy become unable to control?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place when Lucy goes to New York Medical Center?

2. What does Lucy wonder about Michael?

3. What does Lucy notice about her appearance at this time?

4. What happens when Lucy develops a crush?

5. What method of reconstructive surgery does Dr. Conley suggest?

6. What happens when Lucy wakes from her surgery at St. Vincent?

7. What takes place during her next surgery?

8. What does Lucy say about her friend, Teresa?

9. What does note about Michael?

10. How does Lucy feel about herself at this point?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy has severe jaw pain after colliding with another girl during dodge ball.

Part 1) What is the cause of this jaw pain? Would it have occurred if she had not collided with the other girl? Explain.

Part 2) How does this incident begin the plot of the story? How does Lucy change because of this incident?

Part 3) Is it good she collided with this girl? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy relishes her first hospital experience.

Part 1) Why does she enjoy this visit? How does it compare to subsequent visits?

Part 2) How does this first visit foreshadow the next several years of her life?

Part 3) What does this visit reveal about doctors and the medical profession?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the book, Lucy looks into a window "to see if I could, now, recognize myself."

Part 1) What does this mean?

Part 2) How does she come to say this?

Part 3) What is the purpose of ending the book this way? What message does this send to the reader?

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