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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mango feel when she arrives to take Dr. Summer to the Reformatory the next morning?
(a) She appears happy and carefree.
(b) She appears angry with Dr. Summer.
(c) She appears hurried and nervous.
(d) She appears sullen and withdrawn.

2. Where is the State Reformatory for Girls located?
(a) El Paso.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Santa Fe.

3. During what time period does this story take place?
(a) The mid 1960s.
(b) The early 1980s.
(c) The early 1970s.
(d) The late 1980s.

4. Why does Dr. Summer withdraw his offer to stay and help Hatter?
(a) He is fed up with the bureaucratic rules of the Reformatory.
(b) He feels that he cannot help her if she will not communicate with him.
(c) He is concerned that Hatter will attack him again.
(d) He has a fight with Claude.

5. What does Hatter do to Dr. Summer during their first meeting?
(a) She sits in silence, as though she is in a coma.
(b) She attacks him when his back is turned.
(c) She refuses to let him treat her.
(d) She yells and fights with him, ultimately attacking him.

6. What does Hatter refuse to wear?
(a) Her glasses.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her prison dress.
(d) Her prison number.

7. Why does Dr. Summer decide to leave for a few days?
(a) He is asked to leave for a few days by his boss.
(b) He is recovering after Hatter attacks him.
(c) He has to care for a sick family member.
(d) He is disturbed by the violence involved in his job.

8. What does Hatter do as Dr. Summer tells her his life story?
(a) She puts her fingers in her ears to demonstrate her boredom.
(b) She turns away and refuses to look at Dr. Summer.
(c) She starts singing softly to herself.
(d) She asks him to leave.

9. Why does Dr. Summer go to the jail after being released from the hospital?
(a) To press charges against Hatter.
(b) To check on Hatter's wounds and her progress.
(c) None of these.
(d) To see Hatter face-to-face.

10. How does Hatter react to Dr. Summer when he offers her something to drink?
(a) She attacks him again.
(b) She yells at him to leave her alone.
(c) She listens and speaks to him softly.
(d) She is completely unresponsive at first.

11. How does the psychiatrist explain Hatter's extreme punishment?
(a) She had injured another inmate.
(b) All of these.
(c) She had attempted to escape.
(d) She had slashed twelve mattresses the day before.

12. How does Dr. Summer describe the way Hatter is kept?
(a) Her entire body is bound by leather straps.
(b) All of these.
(c) In a windowless room.
(d) She is confined to a hospital bed.

13. Where does Hatter injure Dr. Summer?
(a) She hits him in the head with the pipe.
(b) She stabs him in the back.
(c) She jabs him in the hand with the pen.
(d) She sticks him in the leg with the syringe.

14. Where does Dr. Summer meet Hatter?
(a) At a local jail.
(b) In a group home.
(c) In the medical clinic.
(d) None of these.

15. Where is Hatter when Dr. Summer sees her?
(a) In the jail common room.
(b) In her cell, lying stiffly under her blanket.
(c) None of these.
(d) In the police chief's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Reformatory psychiatrist tell Dr. Summer is the only way Hatter will leave the basement early?

2. What does Dr. Summer do in Hatter's cell while she sleeps?

3. When does Dr. Summer call the psychiatrist at the Reformatory?

4. How old is Hatter Fox at the beginning of the story?

5. What is the name of the psychiatrist who has asked for Dr. Summer's help?

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