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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. Just after Brian Morris breaks up with her, Lisa Shilling begins to befriend which major character?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Mary Nell Fickett.
(c) Neil Donovan.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.
2. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, her parents performed what action?
(a) They incarcerated Lisa in a mental institution.
(b) They sent Lisa alone to Florida for six weeks.
(c) They filed a restraining order against Brian Morris.
(d) They filed a lawsuit against the school.
3. As the end of school approaches, Elizabeth Frazer plans to go to Maine, Many Nell Fickett plans to go to Ohio, and Betsy Goodman plans to go to Westbury, New York. Why do these exciting summer plans trouble the girls?
(a) Because Westbury, New York, is a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood.
(b) Because Mary Nell doesn't want to go with her family to Ohio.
(c) Because they realizes Lisa Shilling will be left without support.
(d) Because they believe Lisa Shilling will start dating Brian Morris in their absence.
4. Why does Betsy Goodman compare Mary Nell Fickett to a "Mountie" (p. 120)?
(a) Because she originally is from Canada.
(b) Because of her dogged determination.
(c) Because she likes to ride horses.
(d) Because she likes to climb mountains.
5. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?
(a) Fickett.
(b) Frazer.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Shilling.
Short Answer Questions
1. What trait is referred to in the novel as "'Locust Valley Lockjaw'" (p. 30)?
2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?
3. Mary Nell Fickett's approach to helping Lisa Shilling initially consists of...
4. Elizabeth Frazer, Betsy Goodman, and Mary Nell Fickett's intense and initial conversation about diagnosing Lisa Shilling is interrupted when...
5. Which character is described by the narrator as trying "to hard to be clever, too hard to be quick, too hard at everything except at being himself" (pp. 28-29)?
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