View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much weight did Jean lose in 20 weeks?

2. What kind of patients does Jean's hospital take care of now?

3. How does Jean describe Sandrine's job?

4. Where do patients in the hospital tend to get lost?

5. What kind of test did Jean take after losing so much weight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would Jean end the play he wanted to write about his hospital experience?

2. What happened to Jean on December 6th?

3. What does a friend of Jean's do to help him when he starts missing his favorite foods?

4. How does Jean describe his corridor of the hospital?

5. What does Jean prefer to wear while in the hospital and why?

6. Where does Jean usually see all the other patients from his corridor, and how does he feel about those moments?

7. What happens when Jean wakes up from his coma?

8. Who is Eugenie?

9. What does Sandrine help Jean to do, and how do the other staff at the hospital respond to this?

10. What is happening when Jean awakes from his coma?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair is an emotion that affects a number of the people in this book. Which people are most affected by despair, and how does this change the lives of those people?

Essay Topic 2

Diversity and discrimination are two major and related themes in this book. Where do these themes appear, and how do they work together to propel the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Empress Eugenie, and how does she affect Jean during his first months after waking up from his coma?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 586 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample