Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple
Read On Being a Cripple and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. Mairs does not care what others call her as long as they don’t call her
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2. The first neurologist that Mairs consulted told her that she had what?
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3. According to the author, what is the easiest thing to lose and the hardest thing to live without when you have a chronic illness such as hers?
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4. What is an “exacerbation”?
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5. What is “the friend to the weak and the old”?
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