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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Mimi and Don’s second child?
(a) John.
(b) Jim.
(c) Jack.
(d) Joe.

2. Of what is Michael convinced in Chapter 13?
(a) That he is developing schizophrenia too.
(b) That he is not mentally ill.
(c) That he has been poisoned.
(d) That he is adopted.

3. To whom does Mimi Galvin unburden herself in Chapter 17?
(a) Father Freudenstein.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Nancy Gary.
(d) Donald.

4. According to Dr. Pfeiffer in Chapter 19, what is to blame for the boys’ mental illness?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Environmental toxins.
(c) Genes.
(d) Malnutrition.

5. What is the Farm, as explained in Chapter 21?
(a) A treatment center.
(b) A mental hospital.
(c) A hippie commune.
(d) A farm.

6. What is the name originally given to schizophrenia, as discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) Mania praecox.
(b) Neurologica praecox.
(c) Dementia praecox.
(d) Senility praecox.

7. According to the narrator in Chapter 11, what does young Margaret do about the conflicts consuming her brothers?
(a) Enjoys them.
(b) Investigates them.
(c) Internalizes them.
(d) Ignores them.

8. What area of research does Lynn DeLisi want to pursue in Chapter 18?
(a) The genetic origins of schizophrenia.
(b) The environmental origins of schizophrenia.
(c) The bacteriological origins of schizophrenia.
(d) The physiological origins of schizophrenia.

9. To what state does Michael move in Chapter 13?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

10. To what maximum-security hospital is Michael sent in Chapter 13?
(a) Broadmoor.
(b) Atascadero.
(c) Kirby.
(d) Greystone Park.

11. What theory involving the origins of schizophrenia does Frieda Fromm-Reichmann help develop?
(a) The schizophrenogenic mother.
(b) The schizophrenogenic father.
(c) The schizophrenogenic home.
(d) The schizophrenogenic child.

12. What plan sends Donald to the state mental hospital in Chapter 10?
(a) An arson plan.
(b) An assassination plan.
(c) A kidnapping plan.
(d) A murder-suicide plan.

13. Who shows signs of impending psychosis in Chapter 22?
(a) Peter.
(b) Joe.
(c) Mark.
(d) Richard.

14. In the 1960s, Don Galvin becomes the executive director of which organization?
(a) The League of Rocky Mountain States.
(b) The Federation of Rocky Mountain States.
(c) The Coalition of Rocky Mountain States.
(d) The Union of Rocky Mountain States.

15. Which Galvin sibling leads the life of a teenage rebel, as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Donald.
(b) Jim.
(c) Brian.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many of the Galvin children believe regarding Brian’s death in Chapter 16?

2. As Chapter 1 begins, what hobby have Mimi and Don Galvin taken up?

3. In what private school is Margaret enrolled in Chapter 20?

4. In Chapter 15, what about the Galvins is known to the community?

5. Where is Robert Freedman conducting research in Chapter 24?

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