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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10 (Pages 33 - 60).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, Jeremy Bernstein diagnoses Lisa's condition as...
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Tension.
(d) Psychosis.
2. When Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett finally tell Lisa Shilling that the know she is mentally ill, Lisa Shilling responds by...
(a) Telling them they are out of line.
(b) Denying anything is wrong.
(c) Asking how they think they can help.
(d) Attacking them with a knife.
3. When Betsy Goodman finds Mary Nell Fickett and Lisa Shilling in Mr. Milne's classroom, Lisa Shilling is hiding underneath Mr. Milne's desk and doing what?
(a) Repeatedly sticking a pin into her wrist.
(b) Copying the answer key to the next day's examination.
(c) Sobbing about her break up with Brian Morris.
(d) Reading a book about psychiatry.
4. Betsy Goodman says her father calls "choosing what you want to hear and concentrating only on that" (p. 18) by the phrase...
(a) Wishful thinking.
(b) Living in your own world.
(c) A blind spot.
(d) Selective inattention.
5. How does Lisa Shilling react when Brian Morris breaks up with her?
(a) She weeps hysterically for weeks.
(b) She begins to stalk him.
(c) She seems largely unaffected.
(d) She blames Mary Nell Fickett for coming between them.
Short Answer Questions
1. The novel is set in what U.S. State?
2. According to the narrator, Jeremy Bernstein's primary job function is...
3. Which character is described by the narrator as looking "like Shelley Winters playing a roadhouse pick-up...stretch-pants two sizes too small, preshrunk sweaters with classic midriff bulge, a fur coat slung over her shoulders, and a scarf hiding the curlers in her hair" (p. 29)?
4. Betsy Goodman believes that as an adult she will be great at being...
5. Why does Brian Morris break up his relationship with Lisa Shilling?
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