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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What designer makes the dress that Elizabeth purchases to fit in?

2. How does Elizabeth react to her mother's outrage?

3. What does Elizabeth long to become?

4. What improves Elizabeth's relationship with her mother that five years of therapy could not accomplish?

5. What is Paris's reaction to Elizabeth rant about what it feels like to be depressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elizabeth compensate for her parents' constant arguing?

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

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

4. Why does Elizabeth start to cut herself?

5. At the beginning of the party, what happens to Elizabeth's cat?

6. What does Elizabeth do instead of go to school each morning?

7. What is Graves' disease?

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

9. Why does Elizabeth say that she never had to worry about a crash landing?

10. How does physical contact with Abel make Elizabeth feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe Elizabeth uses hyperbole in her novel? Why or why not? Use three specific examples from the novel to support your theory. What impact does this have for the reader of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Do you believe Wurtzel's parents' divorce played a role in her depression? Do you think she would have been depressed if they had stayed together? Did their treatment of each other affect her and consequently her depression during her adolescent years? How so? Use specific examples to demonstrate how you believe the divorce did or did not affect her mental health.

Essay Topic 3

Elizabeth believes that one of the fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy was the belief that if a person talks about how they feel, their problems will be solved. Why does she believe this is a mistake? Does her family currently talk too much or not enough? Give three specific examples. What do you think the psychological impact of these talks have on Elizabeth? Do you think her family and its approach to talking ultimately helps her or has a negative impact?

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