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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 and 22 (Pages 131 - 143).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Betsy Goodman's first impression of Neil Donovan is...
(a) That he is really good looking.
(b) That he looks a little crazy.
(c) That he is really old.
(d) That his nose is too big.

2. Who first decides to try and help Lisa Shilling?
(a) Tracy Shilling.
(b) Mary Nell Fickett.
(c) Betsy Goodman.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

3. The first story that Betsy Goodman heard about Lisa Shilling's strange behavior happened on...
(a) Ben Goodman's graduation.
(b) Mary Nell Fickett's birthday.
(c) Paul Newman's newest film's opening night.
(d) The first anniversary of Lisa and Brian Morris' going steady.

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

5. When Betsy Goodman, Mary Nell Fickett, and Elizabeth Frazer visit Lisa Shilling in the hospital, how does Lisa react?
(a) She calls the nurse and tells her to shoo them away.
(b) She tells them to leave her alone and gets angry.
(c) She's embarrassed and talks about school and boys.
(d) She is nearly completely unresponsive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mary Nell Fickett states Lisa Shilling's diagnosis is "'a paranoid or a schizophrenic, and maybe both together'" (p. 68). Elizabeth Frazer disagrees and states Lisa's diagnosis is...

3. Mary Nell Fickett says that Lisa Shilling's behavior is "ridiculous...[for]...two reasons" (p. 67). What are the two reasons?

4. Which character is described by the narrator as a "quiet, distinguished-looking man about sixty who has real style...[he] can talk with you and make you feel instantly at home" (p. 30)?

5. The first person to suspect that perhaps Lisa Shilling did have a mental illness was...

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