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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tara do during the play she performs in in Chapter 13?
(a) Starts counting the lights.
(b) Runs onstage screaming.
(c) Begins praying.
(d) Forgets her lines.

2. Where does Tara's family go to eat in Chapter 16?
(a) A racetrack.
(b) A movie theatre.
(c) A Chinese restaurant.
(d) A museum.

3. Donna begins doing what in Chapter 13?
(a) Skipping school.
(b) Using drugs.
(c) Starting fires.
(d) Having sex.

4. In Chapter 14, Donna and Tara spend Christmas day doing what?
(a) Throwing snowballs.
(b) Making snow men.
(c) Making snow angels.
(d) Shoveling snow.

5. What is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and physical well-being?
(a) Depression.
(b) Mania.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Bipolar.

6. Where do Donna and Tara go so that Donna can smoke in Chapter 14?
(a) Tara's house.
(b) An alley.
(c) A park.
(d) Donna's house.

7. Sam tells Tara and her family that he knows what it feels like to what, in Chapter 18?
(a) Have a tyrant in your head.
(b) Kiss doorknobs.
(c) Be misdiagnosed.
(d) Feel frustrated.

8. In Chapter 13, Tara's parents even see the positive influence that who has on Tara?
(a) Anna.
(b) Keesha.
(c) Greta.
(d) Donna.

9. In Chapter 20, Tara makes a list of what?
(a) Favorite activities.
(b) Places she would like to go.
(c) Rituals she wants to stop.
(d) Her friends.

10. Tara's new psychiatrist explains that the condition is a disease of the brain, not what, in Chapter 19?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Contagious.
(c) A personality disorder.
(d) A physical illness.

11. Where does Tara take her friends on the way home from school in Chapter 21?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) The bakery.
(c) The library.
(d) The hardware store.

12. What does Tara do after her routing of putting her fingers on the doorknob in Chapter 15?
(a) Closes her eyes.
(b) Touches her ear.
(c) Puts her fingers to her lips.
(d) Takes a deep breath.

13. Sam calls Tara in Chapter 19, and tells her that if she doesn't get over her fears, they will what?
(a) Liberate her.
(b) Eventually go away.
(c) Get bigger and bigger.
(d) Destroy her.

14. According to the Afterword, OCD affects about what percentage of the population in adults?
(a) 7.3.
(b) 5.0.
(c) 6.2.
(d) 2.5.

15. In Chapter 17, one night, on her way out the front door to meet Donna, Tara does her doorknob thing, and her father asks her what?
(a) If he can do anything to help her.
(b) If he's made her unhappy.
(c) If she is worried about something.
(d) Why she must kiss doorknobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Tara been given for Christmas that she's proud of in Chapter 14?

2. What does Tara's mother do at first to discourage her from doing "the doorknob thing" in Chapter 15?

3. What kind of therapy involves exposing yourself to the thing you are most afraid of, and realizing that it is irrational?

4. What does Tara ask Donna which at first offends Donna in Chapter 14?

5. When Tara describes the scene from the restaurant to a doctor in Chapter 16, what diagnosis does the doctor give for Tara?

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