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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. What holiday do the boys ruin in Chapter 15?

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

3. What plan sends Donald to the state mental hospital in Chapter 10?

4. Where does adult Donald live, as revealed in the prologue?

5. What does Michael want his family to do in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Brian in Chapter 16?

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

4. How does Michael feel about his family upon returning home in Chapter 21?

5. How does Jim distance himself from his older brother in Chapter 6?

6. How does Donald begin to show signs of mental instability in Chapter 7?

7. What happens to Don Galvin while stationed in Canada, as explained in Chapter 5?

8. What is the theory schizophrenogenic mother, as explained in Chapter 4?

9. What traumatic experience begins to happen to Margaret and Mary in Chapter 12? How do they react to this trauma? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the coping mechanisms of Mimi, Margaret, and Lindsay. Each of them cope with their childhood traumas as well as their family’s schizophrenia in different ways. How are they similar, and how are they different?

Essay Topic 2

What role does religion play in Hidden Valley Road? How does religion help the members of the Galvin family, and how does it hurt them?

Essay Topic 3

Lindsay finds herself involved in several conflicts during her childhood and adulthood. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on both herself and her family.

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