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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. In Chapter 7, where did Angela take Susannah to talk?
2. At the end of Chapter 7, what actress did Susannah remember seeing before everything went black?
3. In Chapter 5, what day of the week does Susannah return to work?
4. In Chapter 13, what was the name of Susannah's cat?
5. In Chapter 8, what type of seizure did Susannah have?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, what preliminary news did Susannah learn after having an MRI?
2. In Chapter 13, how did Susannah act when her father and stepmother wanted her to come home with them?
3. In Chapter 18, how was Susannah dealt with after she began running up and down the hallways?
4. In Chapter 14, what did Susannah say about the seizure she had at NYU and what she remembered from that time?
5. In Chapter 12 on the way to see Dr. Bailey, what did Susannah demand and what did she do after she got what she wanted?
6. In Chapter 10, what did Susannah's mother and brother think about what her neurologist and psychiatrist's diagnoses of Susannah's problems?
7. In Chapter 4, why did Susannah's father tell her to pull herself together?
8. In the Preface, what situation did Susannah find herself in?
9. Why was it difficult for Dr. Russo to examine Susannah in Chapter 16?
10. In Chapter 11, what epiphany did Susanna have at the beginning of the chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Susannah sometimes felt guilty that she had survived and others did not. Why did Susannah feel guilty for surviving?
Essay Topic 2
Susannah struggled with self-esteem after her illness. How did the illness affect Susannah as a person? Why did it cause her to lose confidence and her self-esteem?
Essay Topic 3
It was extremely difficult to diagnosis Susannah’s illness. Why was it so difficult to diagnosis her illness? What is revealed about medical diagnosis through the difficulties of finding a name for her disease?
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