Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Final Test - Medium

Elizabeth Wurtzel
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Final Test - Medium

Elizabeth Wurtzel
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What is the name of the next new pill that Elizabeth must try?
(a) Lithium.
(b) Prozac.
(c) Thorazine.
(d) Desyrdril.

2. What does Elizabeth move to Texas to do?
(a) Work a summer job as an arts reporter for the Dallas Morning News.
(b) Work as a writer for Rolling Stone.
(c) Write a novel about her mental health problems.
(d) Find local bands for a recording agency.

3. What is the only way Elizabeth sleeps after leaving Rafe each weekend?
(a) By returning back to see him again.
(b) By drinking herself into a stupor.
(c) By talking to him on the phone until she falls asleep.
(d) By sneaking her roommate's Halcion pills.

4. Which one of these things does Elizabeth NOT swear off while in Cambridge?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Bad influences.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Boyfriends.

5. "Drinking in _______ was a lot more fun than it had ever been anywhere else, although I couldn't say why."
(a) Dallas.
(b) The office.
(c) Texas bars.
(d) My boyfriend's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of these are not a worry Elizabeth faces with Dr. Sterling?

2. Which of these is NOT a book that Elizabeth is taking with her?

3. Which of these is NOT a side effect associated with drugs created to treat depression?

4. What makes him very different from Rafe?

5. What has really happened to Elizabeth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Elizabeth starts to cry continuously with Rafe. While talking with Dr. Sterling, what do they decide the reason for this is?

2. What happens as soon as Elizabeth lands in Gatwick?

3. What about the Dallas music industry surprises Elizabeth when she arrives?

4. Why does Elizabeth say she carries a lot of stuff with her at all times?

5. What does Elizabeth's Space, Time and Motion class become symbolic of?

6. How does Elizabeth describe the difference between madness and depression in relation to literature?

7. What does Elizabeth find ironic about her decision to find a new psychologist?

8. What does Dr. Sterling think that Elizabeth must continue to do while at Stillman Infirmary?

9. What does Elizabeth believe one of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is?

10. How do the doctors react when Elizabeth is brought into the hospital covered in blood?

(see the answer keys)

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