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

2. In Chapter 15, after Christmas, Tara doesn't feel she can open any door until she has repeated a routine in which she places her fingers on the door how?
(a) From left to right.
(b) With the same pressure on each finger.
(c) All at the same time.
(d) One at a time.

3. Who wrote the Afterword to the novel?
(a) A. J. Allen, M.D. and Ph.D.
(b) H. T. Murphy M.D.
(c) T. T. Rodriguez D.D.S. and Ph.D.
(d) W. C. Roberts Ph.D.

4. 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) Get bigger and bigger.
(c) Destroy her.
(d) Eventually go away.

5. What does Tara say she is frightened of and wants to begin therapy without it in Chapter 19?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Medication.
(c) Shock treatments.
(d) Radation treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tara has a small part in a play for what in Chapter 13?

2. What activity would Sam compulsively do, according to his story in Chapter 18?

3. When Tara leaves Sam in Chapter 23, he slams the door in her face and then reopens it and they do what?

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

5. How old was Tara when she first heard "Step on a crack, break your mother's back"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tara describe her analysis of her dream from the beginning of the novel in Chapter 23?

2. How has Tara's emotional life evolved in Chapter 13?

3. How does Tara feel about Sam's impending visit in Chapter 18? How does she greet him?

4. What does Tara go with Donna to purchase in Chapter 20? Why?

5. What treatment does Dr. Leopardi suggest in Chapter 19? How difficult does she tell Tara it will be?

6. How is the obstacle of diagnosis growing to a climax in Chapter 16?

7. How does Tara relate her school studies to her own life in Chapter 21?

8. What fortunes are read by Tara's family at the Chinese restaurant in Chapter 16?

9. What new behavior has Tara adopted in the beginning of Chapter 15?

10. How does Tara's treatment with Susan Leopardi begin in Chapter 20?

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