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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of therapy involves exposing yourself to the thing you are most afraid of, and realizing that it is irrational?
(a) Cause and effect therapy.
(b) Therapy of reason.
(c) Exposure and response prevention therapy.
(d) Emotional therapy.

2. What does Mr. Jacobson tell Tara and her parents he believes she has in Chapter 17?
(a) Attention Deficit Disorder.
(b) Anorexia.
(c) Bipolar Disorder.
(d) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

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

4. In Chapter 17, when Tara does her doorknob thing in front of her father, he gets angry when she won't stop what?
(a) Singing.
(b) Tapping her foot.
(c) Counting.
(d) Talking.

5. Who does the pharmacist from the drug store turn out to be in Chapter 22?
(a) Sam's Uncle Joe.
(b) Sam's grandfather.
(c) Sam's brother.
(d) Sam's father.

6. When Tara sees Donna, Donna says that she's has sex with a boy named what in Chapter 20?
(a) Joe.
(b) Rob.
(c) Chuck.
(d) Harry.

7. Who does Tara say she still has for therapy and support in Chapter 23?
(a) Chuck.
(b) Susan Leopardi.
(c) Sister Margaret.
(d) Sam.

8. Who does Tara ask to walk home with her after class in Chapter 21?
(a) Chuck and Donna.
(b) Keesha and Anna.
(c) Anna and Donna.
(d) Chuck and Greta.

9. What does Tara's family read after dinner in Chapter 16?
(a) Sports scores.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Their horoscopes.
(d) Fortune cookies.

10. Mr. Jaccobson is a friend of whose?
(a) David's father.
(b) Donna.
(c) Tara's father.
(d) Greta's cousin.

11. What does Tara make a point to do while walking home from school with friends in Chapter 21?
(a) Step on every crack.
(b) To not look down.
(c) To be completely silent.
(d) To smile the whole way.

12. What does Tara's new psychiatrist say when Tara tells her she hates her in Chapter 20?
(a) "How dare you."
(b) "That's okay. It's not important."
(c) "I'm not too fond of you either."
(d) "Get it all out."

13. What happened a few days after Sam kissed Tara, according to Chapter 23?
(a) His parakeet died.
(b) He bought a puppy.
(c) He got sick.
(d) He stopped answering his phone.

14. When Sam visits Tara's family in Chapter 18, he explains that he was afraid of what?
(a) Germs.
(b) Guns.
(c) Birds.
(d) Trucks.

15. When Tara describes the scene from the restaurant to a doctor in Chapter 16, what diagnosis does the doctor give for Tara?
(a) "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder."
(b) "Inconclusive."
(c) "Full blown Bipolar Disorder."
(d) "Borderline anorexia...anger issues."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tara's mother threaten to do due to Tara's behavior in Chapter 15?

2. What is Kristin doing in Chapter 21?

3. Tara's new psychiatrist tells her to think about her parents being dead how many times a day in Chapter 20?

4. In Chapter 23, Tara says that she has figured out the dream she had at the beginning of the novel: The monster she was afraid of was what?

5. According to the Afterword, OCD affects about what percentage of the population in adults?

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