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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 5 (Pages 9 - 33).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to talk to her parents about something important. Lisa's mother, Mrs. Shilling, responds by doing what?
(a) Telling Lisa she can't get married.
(b) Listening to Lisa's concerns.
(c) Asking Lisa's sister and friend if they would like more food.
(d) Telling Lisa to go talk to her father.

2. According to the narrator, who is "the gasp!!!!" (p. 23) of the school?
(a) Jeremy Bernstein.
(b) Brian Morris.
(c) Tracy Shilling.
(d) Ben Goodman.

3. After Lisa Shilling's first public outburst of irrational behavior amidst a group of friends occurred, Mary Nell Fickett apologized by saying...
(a) That Lisa had just broken up with her boyfriend.
(b) She and Lisa were stressed about school
(c) It was Lisa's menstrual cycle..
(d) Betsy and Lisa had been using psychedelic drugs.

4. According to the narrator, who "counts less" (p. 12) than anyone else in the novel?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Lisa Shilling.
(c) Elizabeth Frazer.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

5. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?
(a) Moves out of the house to live with her boyfriend.
(b) Lays on her bead and smashes her head against the headboard.
(c) Goes to school and flunks her English test.
(d) Goes shopping with her friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Betsy Goodman believes that as an adult she will be great at being...

2. Why does Brian Morris break up his relationship with Lisa Shilling?

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

4. Which character's father is a minister?

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

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