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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What serial killer did Lori see in a hallucination?

2. What did "elopement" mean at the hospital that Lori signed herself into in November of 1985?

3. What did Mark admit made him less understanding of Lori's illness?

4. What did Marvin want Lori to write down (because of this, she kept a paper and pencil by her bed)?

5. What was the scale that Lori came up with to determine the strength of the Voices?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Quiet Room.

2. What were a few of the things that Lori did, as stated in Chapter 20, when she began "hearing the call of cocaine again"?

3. Why did Lori create a scale for Dr. Doller?

4. Explain the the compartments of Lori's brain.

5. What did Marvin state as progress for Lori at his fiftieth birthday?

6. How did Lori master the Quiet Room?

7. What did Mark admit to in Chapter 19 that his parents were unaware of?

8. How did Dr. Doller differ from all of Lori's other doctors?

9. What did Lori do to get thrown out of Futura House?

10. Describe Lori's plans, and what she actually did, to commit suicide (at the end of Chapter 20).

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lori's Voices are personified given the capitalization of the "V". Why do you believe that Lori personified her Voices? What did this do for the Voices? What did it do for Lori?

Essay Topic 2

What importance did the Search for Change halfway house have for Lori? What did she need to learn there? How did she change during her time there? How important was Search for Change in Lori's success at beating her illness?

Essay Topic 3

Lori's illness changed dramatically when she began taking clozapine. Describe the changes that Lori went through while on clozapine. What did she struggle with initially? How did the drug come to help her in the end? How was it different from all other drugs that she had taken previously?

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