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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15 (Pages 60 - 96).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Betsy Goodman wants Lisa Shilling to teach her how to do what strange behavior?
(a) Talk in gibberish.
(b) Fall asleep with her eyes open.
(c) Talk with an English accent.
(d) Dress in all black.

2. Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett try to diagnose Lisa Shilling by watching Elizabeth Taylor's performance in which movie?
(a) Raintree Country.
(b) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
(c) Three Faces of Eve.
(d) Cleopatra.

3. When Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett finally tell Lisa Shilling that the know she is mentally ill, Lisa Shilling responds by...
(a) Asking how they think they can help.
(b) Denying anything is wrong.
(c) Attacking them with a knife.
(d) Telling them they are out of line.

4. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?
(a) Frazer.
(b) Fickett.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Shilling.

5. Which major character suggests that Elizabeth Frazer should join Lisa Shilling's impromptu group therapy sessions?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Elizabeth Frazer.
(c) Lisa Shilling.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the novel is...

2. Which character begins the novel with a goal to be the first woman justice on the Supreme Court and ends the novel contemplating a career in psychology?

3. Lisa Shilling's only sibling is..

4. Betsy Goodman asks Jeremy Bernstein about Lisa Shilling's mental illness. Bernstein responds by...

5. As the group therapy sessions continue, why does Mary Nell Fickett lose confidence?

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