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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 did Lori look at when the Voices "began to screech and cackle"?

2. What did Lori Winters tell Marvin that Lori had tried to do when the police had arrived at their apartment?

3. What did Nancy Schiller stop to buy at the corner of 66th Street and First Avenue?

4. How much was the one-bedroom in New York that Lori and Lori wanted to rent?

5. What is wrong with the memory that plagued Lori, as described in Chapter 2, "Lori, Scarsdale, New York, August 1970-August 1977"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marvin want to insure that nothing of his daughter's break "came to light"?

2. According to Chapter 12, why did Lori state that she always listened to music?

3. Why did the memory of the dog plague Lori?

4. What were the three things that Nancy Schiller did before she went to visit Lori in Payne Whitney?

5. What did Lori come to accept as a sign of fate that she should attend Tufts for college?

6. Why did Marvin tell Nancy that they needed to keep Lori's illness secret?

7. When Lori returned home in 1983, why did she state that dinners around the family table had changed?

8. Why did Lori WInters stated that at one point she began to think of getting married even though she did not love the man she was dating?

9. Why was Steven Schiller really afraid of what had happened to his sister?

10. What did Marvin Schiller learn from the late night phone call, in March of 1982, from Lori Winters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lori was required to submit to many different treatments. Which of the treatments do you believe was the best for her? Explain in full detail why. (Use other treatments' shortcomings to support your belief.

Essay Topic 2

Lori met with many doctors throughout her time in the hospitals. Choose one doctor and explain why you believe that this doctor did the most for Lori. What specific things did this doctor do that helped Lori the most?

Essay Topic 3

At many times throughout the text, Lori "finds" herself back in a hospital. Do you think that Lori forced her way back into hospitals for a reason? Do you think that, even though Lori hated the hospitals, the hospitals were the one place that she felt the safest? Support your answers textually.

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