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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. 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) Mary Nell Fickett.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Elizabeth Frazer.
(d) Shirley MacLaine.

2. When Betsy Goodman finds Mary Nell Fickett and Lisa Shilling in Mr. Milne's classroom, Lisa Shilling is hiding underneath Mr. Milne's desk and doing what?
(a) Repeatedly sticking a pin into her wrist.
(b) Sobbing about her break up with Brian Morris.
(c) Copying the answer key to the next day's examination.
(d) Reading a book about psychiatry.

3. 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) Lisa attacks Elizabeth and tries to shove her into the fireplace.
(c) Betsy invites her father to watch the movie Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! .
(d) Mary Nell announces her parents are getting divorced.

4. After visiting Lisa Shilling in the hospital, Betsy Goodman, Elizabeth Frazer, and Mary Nell Fickett become very happy and spend a few hours goofing off in a park and laughing. Why?
(a) They are happy that Lisa isn't hurt too badly.
(b) They are high on drugs.
(c) They hate Lisa and are glad she is in the hospital.
(d) They are happy that Lisa is going to get the help she needs.

5. Why does Mary Nell Fickett tell Betsy Goodman that she is furious with Elizabeth Frazer?
(a) Because Elizabeth is smarter than Mary Nell.
(b) Because Elizabeth refuses to take charge of the situation.
(c) Because Elizabeth is better looking than Mary Nell.
(d) Because Mary Nell is no longer in charge of the situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Lisa Shilling attacks Elizabeth Frazer how does she [Lisa] behave?

2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to talk to her parents about something important. Lisa's mother, Mrs. Shilling, responds by doing what?

3. Why does the narrator state that Jeremy Bernstein should have been an administrator or a computer technician?

4. Lisa Shilling sometimes speaks with what kind of an affected accent?

5. Lisa Shilling is admitted to a mental facility. Elizabeth Frazer is headed to Ohio. Mary Nell Fickett is headed to Maine. Betsy Goodman will remain in the locality of home. Whom does she think about as she worries that she'll spend the summer all alone?

(see the answer key)

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