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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Secret Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the secret life that Elizabeth has that her mother doesn't know about?
(a) She skips school all day often.
(b) She is a drug addict to prescription pills.
(c) She has a boyfriend and goes to his house all day instead of school.
(d) She is writing a novel.

2. Where does Elizabeth end up when the coke wears off?
(a) Sitting under a cold shower, screaming and crying.
(b) On the bathroom floor covered in black chiffon.
(c) On the fire escape landing, refusing to come inside.
(d) Pounding on the door of her ex-boyfriend's apartment.

3. Who or what starts to give Elizabeth her first feelings of pleasure in a long time?
(a) The cocktail of drugs she's taking.
(b) Abel, her friend's older brother.
(c) Bruce Springsteen.
(d) The ride on the subway train in the middle of the night.

4. What did Elizabeth's mother go to Cornell to become?
(a) A reverend.
(b) A marine biologist.
(c) An architect.
(d) An engineer.

5. Elizabeth describes depression as an "absence" of many things; which one of these is not one of the absences she mentions?
(a) Absence of faith.
(b) Absence of response.
(c) Absence of feeling.
(d) Absence of interest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elizabeth's mother treat her?

2. Why does Elizabeth have to leave the party in the beginning?

3. What book is the quote from?

4. Where do Elizabeth and her mother move to?

5. What disease does Elizabeth fear the lithium will give her?

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