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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hazel’s mother doing when Hazel calls to her after reading Von Houten’s assistant’s email in Chapter 8?
(a) Taking a bath
(b) Writing a letter
(c) Talking on the phone
(d) Cooking dinner

2. What experimental drug was Hazel given after she’d contracted pneumonia, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Abraxane
(b) Afinitor
(c) Phalanxifor
(d) Eloxatin

3. What is served for dinner at Augustus’s house when Hazel and her parents visit in Chapter 15?
(a) Enchiladas
(b) Rack of lamb
(c) Stuffed peppers
(d) Roasted turkey

4. Where do Hazel, her mother, and Augustus change planes on their trip to Amsterdam in Chapter 10?
(a) Chicago
(b) Detroit
(c) New York
(d) Cincinnati

5. Amsterdam is the capital city of what country?
(a) The Netherlands
(b) Iceland
(c) Norway
(d) Greenland

Short Answer Questions

1. In the letter from Peter Van Houten to Augustus in Chapter 7, he writes, “I am in receipt of your electronic mail dated the 14th of April and duly impressed by the Shakespearean complexity of your tragedy. Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid” what?

2. Who is the “perennially strong appendiceal cancer survivor” that fills in Hazel on the latest events at the cancer support group meeting in Chapter 9?

3. What does “NEC” stand for in the narrative?

4. What is written on the sign that Hazel’s father holds at the airport in Chapter 14?

5. The word “ontology” from Chapter 12 refers to a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of what?

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