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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Donald allow Mary to do in the prologue to the book?
(a) Run away.
(b) Baptize him in a lake.
(c) Build a bonfire.
(d) Tie him to a tree.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 12, Margaret and Mary are among the first to witness the instability of which member of the Galvin family?
(a) John.
(b) Donald.
(c) Jim.
(d) Brian.

5. Mary’s earliest memories involve the frightening behavior of which sibling, as explained in Chapter 19?
(a) Donald.
(b) Brian.
(c) Jim.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the prologue to the book begin?

2. As discussed in Chapter 13, what blinds Mimi and Don to Brian’s suffering?

3. What is the name of Mimi and Don’s first child?

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 12, every member of the Galvin family operates in a world without what?

5. Who shows signs of impending psychosis in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Freedman discover in Chapter 24? What does he develop as a result?

2. What happens when the family visits the Brain Bio Center in Chapter 19?

3. How has the situation gotten worse at home, as demonstrated in Chapter 22?

4. What hobby do the Galvins enjoy, as discussed in Chapter 1? What draws them to this hobby?

5. Who is Marilee? How does she reflect Donald’s increasing instability in Chapter 7?

6. What impact did the theory of the schizophrenogenic mother have on families, as explained in Chapter 4?

7. Who is Lynn DeLisi and for what does she begin searching in Chapter 18?

8. What happens as Margaret goes to live with the Garys in Chapter 20?

9. What does the community think about the Galvins, as explained in Chapter 15?

10. Who is David Rosenthal and what influential work did he publish, as explained in Chapter 9?

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