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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 Jean feed himself when he misses regular food?

2. What does Jean do to signify which letter he is looking for?

3. What did Jean imagine Eugenie telling him to do?

4. How long has the author been confined to bed when the book begins?

5. What ability does Jean have that most people with his condition do not?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is the only literary figure with Locked-In syndrome?

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

4. Who is Eugenie?

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

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

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

8. Where has the author spent much of his last year when the book begins?

9. What did Jean's feeding test show?

10. What kind of creature does Jean compare himself to and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Jean's life before his stroke differ from his life after his stroke?

Essay Topic 2

Dealing with disabilities is an important theme in this book. How does Jean display this theme, and how does this affect the people in his family?

Essay Topic 3

How do Jean's feelings about and relationship with his caretakers at the hospital change over the course of this narrative?

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