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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10 (Pages 33 - 60).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes Jeremy Bernstein as being shaped like what letter of the alphabet?
(a) L.
(b) J.
(c) C.
(d) O.

2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?
(a) Goes to school and flunks her English test.
(b) Moves out of the house to live with her boyfriend.
(c) Lays on her bead and smashes her head against the headboard.
(d) Goes shopping with her friends.

3. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, Jeremy Bernstein diagnoses Lisa's condition as...
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Tension.

4. Betsy Goodman is most-fascinated with which actor/actress?
(a) Shirley MacLaine.
(b) Gregory Peck.
(c) Clint Eastwood.
(d) Paul Newman.

5. Which character is described by the narrator as looking "like Shelley Winters playing a roadhouse pick-up...stretch-pants two sizes too small, preshrunk sweaters with classic midriff bulge, a fur coat slung over her shoulders, and a scarf hiding the curlers in her hair" (p. 29)?
(a) Mrs. Goodman.
(b) Mrs. Fickett..
(c) Mrs. Shilling.
(d) Mrs. Frazer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lisa Shilling's only sibling is..

2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to tell her parents that she thinks she might be crazy because...

3. What sport does Brian Morris play?

4. The first person that Mary Nell Fickett confided in about Lisa Shilling's possible mental illness was...

5. How does Mrs. Shilling respond when Mary Nell Fickett tries to tell her that Lisa Shilling has a mental illness that needs treatment?

(see the answer key)

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