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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening of Chapter 20, Hazel says, “One of the less bullshitty conventions of the cancer kid genre is” what?
(a) “The Last Good Day convention”
(b) “The Last Man Standing convention”
(c) “The Make-a-Wish convention”
(d) “The Eulogy convention”

2. What is the name of the room that Augustus stays in at the hotel in Amsterdam?
(a) The Kierkegaard
(b) The Kafka
(c) The Heidegger
(d) The Hermit

3. What word from Chapter 14 means “rightfulness” or “legality”?
(a) Legitimacy
(b) Adulterated
(c) Entropy
(d) Allegorical

4. When Isaac greets Augustus and asks how he is doing in Chapter 14, Augustus says that everything tastes like what?
(a) Pot roast
(b) Pennies
(c) Cinnamon
(d) Roses

5. What museum does Augustus recommend Hazel visit in Chapter 13?
(a) The Van Gogh Museum
(b) The Rijksmuseum
(c) The Prado Museum
(d) The Guggenheim Museum

6. Hazel tells Augustus in the end of Chapter 13, “I don’t think you’re dying. I think you’ve just got” what?
(a) “A lot of fighting to do”
(b) “Bad luck”
(c) “A touch of cancer”
(d) “A rough patch ahead”

7. What is referred to on the bottom portion of “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” in Chapter 13?
(a) “Physiological needs”
(b) “Esteem needs”
(c) “Self-actualizing needs”
(d) “Security”

8. In his final letter to Von Houten that Hazel reads in Chapter 25, Augustus has written, “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in” what?
(a) “How you die”
(b) “How you get hurt”
(c) “How you recover”
(d) “Who hurts you”

9. Where does Augustus describe ten thousand corpses following the explosion of a volcano in Chapter 14?
(a) Jordan
(b) Alaska
(c) Pompeii
(d) Hawaii

10. What sport had Augustus played in high school before he developed cancer?
(a) Hockey
(b) Basketball
(c) Baseball
(d) Football

11. What does Hazel watch on television with her parents in Chapter 24?
(a) Judge Judy
(b) The View
(c) America’s Next Top Model
(d) Saturday Night Live

12. Where was Augustus when he died, according to the narrator in Chapter 21?
(a) His grandmother’s home
(b) Memorial Hospital
(c) Children’s Hospital
(d) His home

13. Augustus interrupts Isaac in Chapter 20 to correct him on Augustus’s age. How old is Augustus?
(a) 20
(b) 15
(c) 17
(d) 16

14. After telling Hazel about his recurrence of cancer in Chapter 13, Augustus claims that “The world is not” what?
(a) “A fair playing field.”
(b) “My oyster.”
(c) “A wish-granting factory.”
(d) “A 100% guarantee.”

15. Hazel describes going to Augustus’s house how long after their trip to Amsterdam in Chapter 17?
(a) 1 month
(b) 3 days
(c) 1 week
(d) 2 weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Hazel’s mother say she’s been hiding the fact that she’s taking online classes from Hazel in Chapter 24?

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

3. What does Peter Von Houten take out and begin drinking as Hazel’s parents give him a ride after the funeral in Chapter 22?

4. How many years’ worth of fan mail does Peter Van Houten say he has piled up in his home in Chapter 12?

5. Where do Hazel and her parents go on a picnic in Chapter 25?

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