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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. According to the Afterword, Sam's explanation of the chemical causes of OCD in the novel is accurate: it is an imbalance in what?
(a) The basal ganglia.
(b) The cerebrum.
(c) The parietal lobe.
(d) The hippocampus.

2. What does Tara ask Donna which at first offends Donna in Chapter 14?
(a) If she is a virgin.
(b) If she believes in God.
(c) If she is a Republican.
(d) If she plans to graduate.

3. How old was Tara when she first heard "Step on a crack, break your mother's back"?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

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

5. In Chapter 21, Tara says that she's studying what in school?
(a) Physics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) English poetry.
(d) The Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Kristin in Chapter 21?

2. Where does Tara take her friends on the way home from school in Chapter 21?

3. What does Tara's new psychiatrist say when Tara tells her she hates her in Chapter 20?

4. What does Tara's family read after dinner in Chapter 16?

5. Sam suffers from what condition in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What treatment has Sam received for his condition? How does Tara relate to his discussion about OCD in Chapter 18?

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

6. How does Tara describe her relationship with Sam in Chapter 23? How has Tara grown by the novel's end?

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

8. What do Tara and Donna spend Christmas doing in Chapter 14? What does Tara ask Donna?

9. What is Tara's first meeting with Dr. Susan Leopardi like in Chapter 19?

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

(see the answer keys)

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