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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 20 (Pages 97 - 130).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that adults prevent anyone from "get[ting] to the truth" (p. 27) because they are...
(a) Unable to comprehend the truth.
(b) Evil and don't want to let anyone know the truth.
(c) Afraid to admit they have failed.
(d) Trying to shield their children from unpleasant things.

2. Why does Lisa Shilling wait until Mr. Goodman is in the room before she deliberately walks through a floor-to-ceiling window?
(a) She wants an adult witness to her action.
(b) She knows that Mr. Goodman is a paramedic.
(c) She is terrified of Mr. Goodman and is trying to get away from him.
(d) She wants Mr. Goodman to see her damaging his house.

3. Lisa Shilling spends her six-week vacation in Florida doing what?
(a) Canoeing through the Everglades.
(b) Babysitting her older sister's two children.
(c) Staring at the ocean.
(d) Goofing off at Disneyworld.

4. With only three weeks left in the school year, what does Mr. Bernstein hope for?
(a) That he will win the lottery before he loses his job.
(b) That Lisa Shilling will complete school and become someone else's problem.
(c) That Betsy Goodman will pass her classes and graduate.
(d) That Rev. Fickett will let him join another church.

5. According to Mary Nell Fickett, why do teenagers like to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes?
(a) Because they like to be addicted to things.
(b) Because there's nothing else to do.
(c) To show how old they are.
(d) To make their parents worry.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does the narrator believes that Mr. Bernstein and the school will not act in Lisa Shilling's best interests?

2. According to the narrator, Jeremy Bernstein's primary job function is...

3. Why does Mr. Shilling reject Rev. Fickett's and Mr. Milne's assertion that Lisa Shilling is suffering from serious mental illness?

4. Elizabeth Frazer, Betsy Goodman, and Mary Nell Fickett's intense and initial conversation about diagnosing Lisa Shilling is interrupted when...

5. According to Elizabeth Frazer, Betsy Goodman has something that Elizabeth and Mary Nell Fickett don't have. What are the three traits that Elizabeth enumerates?

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