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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 did Lucy start to do after she was told that the surgeons could not help her anymore?
(a) Cut herself.
(b) Work on a new novel.
(c) Pack to return to Ireland.
(d) Converted to Judaism.

2. What did Ann demand that Lucy got while in the hospital?
(a) Fewer visitors.
(b) Pain medication.
(c) Private suite.
(d) The best doctors.

3. What did Ann do before leaving Lucy in her apartment?
(a) Cooked some meals for the week.
(b) Filled her pain medication prescriptions.
(c) Cleaned the apartment.
(d) Had a hospital bed installed.

4. Where did Lucy wish she to be in Chapter 18?
(a) New York City.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Scotland.

5. What emotion consumed Lucy in Chapter 13?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lucy was considering a new surgery that would take a ______________ from her body to form her jaw.

2. Where does Ann move to in Chapter 11?

3. How many novels had Ann written by Chapter 17?

4. Where had Lucy told Ann she wanted to go for Christmas?

5. What is another group whose meetings Lucy attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lucy's pattern of happiness and depression?

2. To what things did Ann attribute Lucy's depression?

3. Where did Lucy go for rehab, and how did she feel about it?

4. What did Lucy reveal to Ann about her heroin use and her suicide wish?

5. Why did Ann not tell Lucy she was coming to New York for a movie premiere and book party?

6. Why did Lucy begin to contemplate suicide?

7. How did Lucy's death make Ann finally realize her own naivete?

8. What did Karl, Ann's boyfriend, say that he could help Lucy attain with her health issues?

9. What did Ann find especially alarming when Lucy read an essay at a Provincetown reading?

10. How did Ann naively view Lucy's drug addiction and suicide attempts?

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