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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. When the narrator describes her mother as a "joiner" (p. 31) what does she mean?
(a) Her mother constructs articles by joining pieces of wood.
(b) She's using a slang word of the 1960s meaning her mother is not very cool.
(c) Her mother belongs to a social club known as the Joiners.
(d) Her mother likes to join various organizations.

2. What is the profession of Betsy Goodman's father ?
(a) He's an insurance salesman.
(b) He's a school guidance counselor.
(c) He's a reverend.
(d) He's a psychiatrist.

3. According to the narrator, who "counts less" (p. 12) than anyone else in the novel?
(a) Lisa Shilling.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Elizabeth Frazer.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first decides to try and help Lisa Shilling?

2. In the novel's title "Lisa, Bright and Dark", to what does the term "Dark" refer?

3. When Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett finally tell Lisa Shilling that the know she is mentally ill, Lisa Shilling responds by...

4. The narrator states that adults prevent anyone from "get[ting] to the truth" (p. 27) because they are...

5. The narrator describes which major character as fulfilling the role of school princess (that is, regal, cool, far off, blonde, and slim)?

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