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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these things does Elizabeth NOT wish to be instead of depression?
(a) Any real ailment.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A cokehead.
(d) A junkie.

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

3. What does Elizabeth's mom find when she puts a ruler away that she's found?
(a) Illegal drugs.
(b) Ortho-Novum birth control pills.
(c) Pot.
(d) Bottles of alcohol.

4. Where does Elizabeth's mom go for three weeks when Elizabeth is three years old?
(a) To California.
(b) To Israel.
(c) To the Caribbean.
(d) To Poland.

5. What is written on the card Elizabeth receives from her friend?
(a) Getting healthy is for the birds.
(b) Drug use is the best abuse.
(c) 500,000 heroin addicts can't be wrong.
(d) Give me lithium or give me death!

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elizabeth convinced she will have because of taking Prozac?

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

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

4. Which one of these is NOT something Dr. Isaac says to Elizabeth?

5. Who or what starts to give Elizabeth her first feelings of pleasure in a long time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elizabeth finally become resigned to?

2. Why does Elizabeth love taking Ecstasy?

3. What does Elizabeth consider her father's first and last act of paternal authority?

4. What is the Catch-22-like situation that Elizabeth finds herself in?

5. What phrase does Elizabeth would say would have described her perfectly before she "cracked up?"

6. What makes Dr. Saltenstahl different from many of Elizabeth's other psychologists?

7. Why does Elizabeth think that how her mother treated her was the perfect solution?

8. How does Elizabeth end up on the bathroom floor covered in black chiffon sobbing?

9. What are some of the things that Elizabeth and her father do together before he leaves?

10. What is Graves' disease?

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