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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. Which of his sons is present for the medical event experienced by Don in Chapter 17?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 11, what does young Margaret do about the conflicts consuming her brothers?

3. What test does Robert Freedman develop in Chapter 24?

4. What plan does Mary abandon in the prologue?

5. What nickname do the Galvin children give Donald in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Daniel Paul Schreber and what does he contribute to the field of psychiatry, as explained in Chapter 2?

2. Who is Lynn DeLisi and for what does she begin searching in Chapter 18?

3. How does Jim distance himself from his older brother in Chapter 6?

4. How is Margaret affected by her home life, as revealed in Chapter 11?

5. What happens to Don Galvin while stationed in Canada, as explained in Chapter 5?

6. What traumatic experience begins to happen to Margaret and Mary in Chapter 12? How do they react to this trauma? Why?

7. What is the theory schizophrenogenic mother, as explained in Chapter 4?

8. What happens as Margaret goes to live with the Garys in Chapter 20?

9. What does Robert Freedman discover in Chapter 24? What does he develop as a result?

10. What happens between Mary and Donald in the prologue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does religion play in Hidden Valley Road? How does religion help the members of the Galvin family, and how does it hurt them?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the coping mechanisms of Mimi, Margaret, and Lindsay. Each of them cope with their childhood traumas as well as their family’s schizophrenia in different ways. How are they similar, and how are they different?

Essay Topic 3

Lindsay finds herself involved in several conflicts during her childhood and adulthood. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on both herself and her family.

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