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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 does Mr. Jacobson tell Tara and her parents he believes she has in Chapter 17?
(a) Attention Deficit Disorder.
(b) Bipolar Disorder.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

2. What does Tara's family read after dinner in Chapter 16?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Sports scores.
(c) Fortune cookies.
(d) Their horoscopes.

3. What does Tara make a point to do while walking home from school with friends in Chapter 21?
(a) To be completely silent.
(b) Step on every crack.
(c) To not look down.
(d) To smile the whole way.

4. What is Kristin doing in Chapter 21?
(a) Acting.
(b) Working as a travel agent.
(c) Working in a laboratory.
(d) Modeling.

5. Tara's new psychiatrist tells her to think about her parents being dead how many times a day in Chapter 20?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Afterword to the novel?

2. Tara's new psychiatrist explains that the condition is a disease of the brain, not what, in Chapter 19?

3. Tara has a small part in a play for what in Chapter 13?

4. What does Tara's mother do at first to discourage her from doing "the doorknob thing" in Chapter 15?

5. What is one factor of Sam's recovery, as explained in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Jacobson make of Tara in Chapter 17? What questions does he ask her?

2. What treatment does Dr. Leopardi suggest in Chapter 19? How difficult does she tell Tara it will be?

3. What new behavior has Tara adopted in the beginning of Chapter 15?

4. How does Tara's treatment with Susan Leopardi begin in Chapter 20?

5. How does Tara describe her family in Chapter 23?

6. How has Tara's emotional life evolved in Chapter 13?

7. What does Sam bring Tara in Chapter 22? Why?

8. How is the obstacle of diagnosis growing to a climax in Chapter 16?

9. What question does Tara ask her teacher in Chapter 21? Who in the class understands Tara's question?

10. What do Tara and Donna spend Christmas doing in Chapter 14? What does Tara ask Donna?

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