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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. As Mary Nell Fickett becomes more self-educated about psychology, what irritating behavior does she start to exhibit?
(a) She begins to diagnose everyone.
(b) She develops a facial tic.
(c) She starts to speak with big words that nobody else understands.
(d) She starts arguing with everyone all the time.

2. Mr. Shilling meets with Rev. Fickett, Mr. Milne, and his daughter, and rejects their claim that Lisa Shilling is suffering from mental illness. What does Mr. Shilling do after the meeting ends?
(a) He starts drinking heavily.
(b) He roughs up his wife and daughters.
(c) He takes Lisa to the hospital.
(d) He leaves town on a business trip.

3. Which major character says "'No matter what you decide to do, I won't be able to help you very much'" (p. 48)?
(a) Mary Nell Fickett.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Lisa Shilling.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

4. As the group therapy sessions continue, why does Mary Nell Fickett lose confidence?
(a) Because Lisa Shilling doesn't seem to get any better.
(b) Because Elizabeth Frazer is much more beautiful than Mary Nell.
(c) She realizes she is not in charge.
(d) She realizes she doesn't know anything about psychology.

5. Mary Nell Fickett and Betsy Goodman initially turn to what source of information to research mental illness?
(a) Principles of Abnormal Psychology by Maslow and Mittelmann.
(b) The dictionary.
(c) Various Internet sites.
(d) The1959 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first person to suspect that perhaps Lisa Shilling did have a mental illness was...

2. According to the narrator, Jeremy Bernstein's primary job function is...

3. How does Lisa Shilling react when Brian Morris breaks up with her?

4. When Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett finally tell Lisa Shilling that the know she is mentally ill, Lisa Shilling responds by...

5. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?

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