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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 20 (Pages 97 - 130).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, who is "the gasp!!!!" (p. 23) of the school?
(a) Jeremy Bernstein.
(b) Brian Morris.
(c) Tracy Shilling.
(d) Ben Goodman.

2. One night right before the end of the school year Betsy Goodman, Elizabeth Frazer, Mary Nell Fickett, and Lisa Shilling are talking at the Goodman house. What happens right after Mr. Goodman walks into the room?
(a) Lisa deliberately walks through a floor-to-ceiling window.
(b) Mary Nell announces her parents are getting divorced.
(c) Betsy invites her father to watch the movie Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! .
(d) Lisa attacks Elizabeth and tries to shove her into the fireplace.

3. Of the four major characters in the novel, which one eventually becomes the decision-maker of the group?
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Lisa Shilling.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

4. Which major character is described as "a tall, blonde girl who seemed contained from within by taut wires strung from shoulder to shoulder, from head to hip. Self-contained and beautiful and distant, and suddenly mysterious" (pp. 59-60)?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Shirley MacLaine.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

5. How does Mrs. Shilling respond when Mary Nell Fickett tries to tell her that Lisa Shilling has a mental illness that needs treatment?
(a) She slaps Mary Nell and calls the police.
(b) She refuses to listen and tells Mary Nell to go away.
(c) She immediately calls a mental hospital.
(d) She laughs and says she already knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. During some group therapy sessions Mary Nell Fickett encourages Lisa Shilling to "free-associate" (p. 83). What does Mary Nell mean by this term?

2. The narrator states that Mr. Shilling's primary motivation is...

3. Why does Lisa Shilling attack Elizabeth Frazer?

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

5. Which character's father is a minister?

(see the answer key)

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