Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Elizabeth Wurtzel
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elizabeth long to become?
(a) A musician.
(b) Multi-lingual.
(c) The old Lizzy.
(d) A little girl.

2. Which one of these things is not one of the things that drives someone to depression, according to Elizabeth?
(a) Divorce
(b) Death
(c) Money.
(d) Drugs

3. When Elizabeth is on the floor of the bathroom, what illegal drug is she currently on?
(a) Ectasy.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Coke.
(d) Meth.

4. What is Elizabeth's new favorite drug while in Harvard?
(a) Pot.
(b) Ectasy.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Prozac.

5. Which of these is NOT a way that Elizabeth imagines dying?
(a) Go overboard like Natalie Wood.
(b) Like Sylvia Plath with her head in the oven.
(c) Drown deliberately like Virginia Woolf.
(d) In a swimming pool like the opening shot of Sunset Boulevard.

6. What does Elizabeth's mom say she wants to do when she finds the pills in the drawer?
(a) Make her take a pregnancy test.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Throw Elizabeth out.
(d) Put her in a mental hospital.

7. What is Ruby chasing Elizabeth with?
(a) An unloaded gun.
(b) A stereo system.
(c) A fake sword.
(d) An unsheathed pocketknife.

8. Why are Elizabeth's parents suddenly talking again when she is in the eighth grade?
(a) They have decided to try their relationship again.
(b) They are arguing about a financial investment.
(c) They have to decide what to do with her.
(d) Her mother wants more alimony.

9. What is the name of Elizabeth's cousin who she will later learn has the same kind of mental illness?
(a) Paris.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Pamela.
(d) Irv.

10. What does Elizabeth not plan to do after she finds more coke?
(a) Call a number of people once she gets the nerve.
(b) Write an epic Marxist-feminist essay on the Bible.
(c) Find a copy of Gray's Anatomy and memorize it.
(d) Write her memoir about tonight's events.

11. Which concert do Elizabeth and her new boyfriend attend together?
(a) Duran Duran.
(b) The Police.
(c) U2.
(d) The Beach Boys.

12. What does Elizabeth think is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her?
(a) Dr. King gets her a private room in the infirmary.
(b) Dr. King gets her bills paid without needing her involvement.
(c) Dr. King agrees to not contact her parents.
(d) Dr. King agrees to let her skip a semester of classes.

13. Elizabeth's dad disappears at the end of her _______ year.
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Freshman.
(c) Senior.
(d) Junior.

14. What is the mental health facility called at Harvard?
(a) Stillman Infirmary.
(b) King Infirmary.
(c) Einstein Laboratories.
(d) Broughton.

15. What does Elizabeth think every time she thinks about her father?
(a) I want to do drugs.
(b) I want to live with you.
(c) I want a new life.
(d) I want to kill you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quote does Elizabeth use to describe how depression hits her?

2. How does Elizabeth's mother see Oliver North?

3. What did Elizabeth's mother go to Cornell to become?

4. What advice does Elizabeth's dad tell her before he disappears without a trace?

5. What does Elizabeth say Harvard is full of?

(see the answer keys)

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