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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is with Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem in the dark, empty room in the video game that Hazel plays with Isaac in Chapter 9?
(a) Captain Kirk Kendall
(b) Corporal Christendom
(c) Private Jasper Jacks
(d) Major Michael Misbehave

2. The narrator’s mother in An Imperial Affliction is described in Chapter 4 as having an obsession with what kind of flowers?
(a) Roses
(b) Carnations
(c) Tulips
(d) Daffodils

3. In Hazel’s American Literature class that she attends in the beginning of Chapter 3, the lecture is about what social reformer?
(a) Susan B. Anthony
(b) Harriet Tubman
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Frederick Douglass

4. What is the name of the leader of the support group that Hazel attends in the novel?
(a) Patrick
(b) Dr. Jim
(c) Isaac
(d) Graham

5. The title of An Imperial Affliction is said to be derived from a poem by whom in Chapter 5?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) T. S. Elliot
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Emily Dickinson

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the little girl that asks Hazel about her oxygen device at the mall in Chapter 3?

2. What reply does Augustus send when Hazel texts him in Chapter 8, saying, “Still free May three?”

3. What is the name of Augustus’s ex-girlfriend that he describes in Chapter 5?

4. An Imperial Affliction is a novel about a girl who lives in what U.S. state?

5. Hazel’s parents come to her room after her outburst at dinner to tell her she is not what, in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Augustus reveal to Hazel when he sees her in the hospital in Chapter 7? How does she respond?

2. Where does Hazel go after her class in Chapter 3? What does Hazel’s mother do?

3. What discussion takes place between Hazel and Isaac at Isaac’s house in Chapter 9?

4. Why do you think Hazel and Augustus relate well to one another in the novel?

5. What reply does Hazel receive via email in Chapter 5? How does Hazel respond?

6. What holiday does Hazel’s mother declare in Chapter 3? How does Hazel decide to celebrate?

7. What internal conflict causes Hazel to call her friend Kaitlyn in Chapter 6?

8. How long does Hazel stay at the hospital in Chapter 7? How is her stay described?

9. What does Hazel learn about her trip to Amsterdam at the end of Chapter 8?

10. What book is Hazel reading in Chapter 4? What is the book about?

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