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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ann believed Lucy was a poet and _______________.

2. What did Lucy do in February 2002?

3. What did Lucy love to talk about?

4. Ann finally realized that she was _______________.

5. What did Ann think about constantly after Lucy died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the circumstances of Lucy's death?

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

3. What was Ann's experience with hives and how did it let her appreciate Lucy's struggles even more?

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

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

6. What kind of help did Lucy seek for her addictions, and how did she lie about what she was really doing?

7. What was the radical surgery Lucy was considering and later told Ann and Karl about?

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

9. Describe how Lucy and Ann were polar opposites in personality.

10. What name did Ann and Lucy come up with to describe their bad times with Lucy's addictions and suicide attempts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the overall setting and time period for Ann and Lucy's friendship? What were some of the places they shared? What were some places that they experienced separately? How important are the time period and settings to the attitudes and issues of Ann and Lucy?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy Grealy was no stranger to hurt and pain. From what you know of Lucy's life through this book, what were her biggest sorrows and worst betrayals? How did she manage through them? How did her coping skills evidence themselves in many aspects of her life? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Lucy's life? How did it affect her? How does it affect those impacted by Lucy's abuse? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

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