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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. Which brother moves in with Lindsay in Chapter 30?
2. What career does Jack intend to pursue, as explained in Chapter 45?
3. What does her therapist help Lindsay stop doing in Chapter 26?
4. How does Margaret remember her mother describing her daughters, as explained in Chapter 42?
5. With whom does Kate begin to work as an intern, as explained in Chapter 45?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Margaret view her parents’ secrets after they are revealed in Chapter 41? How does Lindsay feel about them?
2. What does the reader learn in Chapter 27 about how drug treatments for schizophrenia have changed over time?
3. What does Lindsay discover in Chapter 41? How does she discover these things?
4. What is the problem presented by neuroleptic drugs, as discussed in Chapter 40?
5. What does Robert Freedman attempt to develop in Chapter 32? Who shuts him down? Why?
6. What happens to Mimi in Chapter 38? Who cares for her?
7. As Chapter 31 begins, whom does Mimi blame for the boys’ schizophrenia? Why?
8. How does Matt feel in the wake of his mother’s death, as he tells Lindsay in Chapter 40?
9. Who is Louise Silvern? What does she do for Lindsay in Chapter 26?
10. How does Margaret attempt to heal from the past, as explained in Chapter 29? What does she not do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Mimi’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a good mother? In what ways is she lacking as a mother?
Essay Topic 2
Hidden Valley Road opens with an epigraph taken from Anne Tyler, who writes: “The clearest way that you can show endurance is by sticking with a family.” Using textual evidence to support your claims, show how Tyler’s words apply to Hidden Valley Road.
Essay Topic 3
What do you think the future has in store for Kate and Jack after the close of the book? Predict their futures based on not only their actions but also the changing attitudes regarding mental health.
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