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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. How does Margaret describe her mother’s description of her daughters, as explained in Chapter 42?
(a) As surprising.
(b) As complimentary.
(c) As passive-aggressive.
(d) As regretful.

2. What does Margaret struggle to overcome in Chapter 42?
(a) Her feelings of abandonment.
(b) Her feelings of responsibility.
(c) Her feelings of loss.
(d) Her feelings of confusion.

3. What does Lindsay gain access to following the death of her mother, as explained in Chapter 41?
(a) Family ancestry records.
(b) Family legal records.
(c) Family medical records.
(d) Family financial records.

4. Who is Lindsay dating in Chapter 30?
(a) Ron.
(b) Rick.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Roy.

5. From what does a teenage Jack suffer, as explained in Chapter 45?
(a) PTSD.
(b) OCD.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Don Galvin die in Chapter 35?

2. What likely caused Jim’s death, as explained in Chapter 35?

3. Who tries to talk Margaret out of her engagement, as explained in Chapter 25?

4. From where does the SHANK2 mutation come, as explained in Chapter 36?

5. How does Margaret feel about her mother, as discussed in Chapter 38?

Short Essay Questions

1. What controversial treatment does Peter receive in Chapter 34? How does he react to these treatments?

2. How does Matt feel in the wake of his mother’s death, as he tells Lindsay in Chapter 40?

3. As Chapter 31 begins, whom does Mimi blame for the boys’ schizophrenia? Why?

4. How does Margaret attempt to heal from the past, as explained in Chapter 29? What does she not do?

5. What kindness does Lindsay perform in Chapter 30? Why? What is the effect of her kind act?

6. What does Lindsay begin to consider in Chapter 25? What makes her consider this?

7. What happens to Margaret and Lindsay after Mimi’s funeral, as explained in Chapter 44?

8. Why is Lynn DeLisi’s research shut down in Chapter 33?

9. How does Margaret view her parents’ secrets after they are revealed in Chapter 41? How does Lindsay feel about them?

10. What does Robert Freedman discover about the Galvins in Chapter 32?

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