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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lance react when he learns he has cancer?
(a) He's ready to fight the disease.
(b) He punches a wall.
(c) He sinks into a deep depression.
(d) He calls the doctors liars.

2. When Lance finally decides to race again, what does Cofidis do?
(a) Offers him a huge salary.
(b) Offers him a fundraising job.
(c) Disbands its cycling team.
(d) Dissolves his contract.

3. How can doctors tell that Lance is beating the odds during his cancer treatment?
(a) He starts riding his bike in the middle of chemo cycles.
(b) Blood tests show his body is successfully fighting the cancer.
(c) Color starts to return to his pale, grayish skin.
(d) He is growing physically stronger with each chemo cycle.

4. What does Lance ask for after hearing everything doctors have to say to him about proposed treatments?
(a) Medicine for his increasing pain.
(b) A coin to flip.
(c) For time with friends and family to make a decision.
(d) Three days to reach a decision.

5. Near the end of the chapter "Bad to Worse," what do doctors begin to fear prior to Lance starting chemotherapy?
(a) That he will try to race despite their objections.
(b) That his body is too weak to handle chemo.
(c) That he doesn't have cancer after all.
(d) That the cancer has spread to his brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Before and After," what does Lance say causes him to become a different person in one afternoon?

2. Why does Lance call Kristin Richard "Kik?"

3. How does Lance's body feel after he completes a chemotherapy cycle?

4. What is Lance's primary concern when he first learns he has cancer?

5. What are the chances that Lance will survive his cancer?

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