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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. What holiday does Hazel’s mother say it is when she wakes Hazel in Chapter 3?
(a) Hazel’s thirty-third half-birthday
(b) Hazel’s mother and father’s anniversary
(c) Christmas Eve
(d) The anniversary of Hazel’s remission

2. What is the name of the hamster in An Imperial Affliction that Hazel asks about in her email to the author in Chapter 5?
(a) Eurydice
(b) Sisyphus
(c) Homer
(d) Herman

3. How many dead people does Augustus say there are for every living person on the earth in Chapter 10?
(a) 22
(b) 16
(c) 200
(d) 14

4. 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?
(a) “Alibi”
(b) “Catharsis”
(c) “Hamartia”
(d) “Virtue”

5. What television show in Hazel’s mother watching when Hazel arrives home in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) America’s Next Top Model
(b) Chopped
(c) Antiques Roadshow
(d) The View

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Hazel call the school that she attends in Chapter 2?

3. Whom does Dr. Maria look to when asking about how they should proceed with Hazel’s treatment in the “Cancer Team Meeting” in the beginning of Chapter 8?

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

5. In the beginning of Chapter 3, Hazel says she stayed up late that night reading what book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Hazel taken to the hospital in Chapter 7? What does she learn about her condition when she awakens in ICU?

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

3. How does the relationship between Hazel and Augustus progress in Chapter 6? What fears does Hazel exhibit about Augustus?

4. What do Isaac and Hazel discuss at the support group meeting in Chapter 9?

5. What do Hazel and her parents do in the beginning of Chapter 10?

6. Whom does Hazel send an email to in Chapter 5? What does she say in the email?

7. Where does Augustus go prior to the boarding of the plane in Chapter 10? Why?

8. Why does Augustus suggest selling Hazel’s swing set in Chapter 8?

9. How do Hazel’s doctors respond when she asks about traveling to Amsterdam in Chapter 8?

10. What differences do you see between Hazel and her friend Kaitlyn in Chapter 3?

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