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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. What diagnosis is described by "when someone wants to do something and yet knows he shouldn't, he reaches out for the thing he shouldn't have, remembers he shouldn't have it, and pulls back. He can go through this for hours, days, years, which makes him absolutely motionless, afraid to do anything" (p. 62)?
(a) Downs syndrome.
(b) Approach-avoidance conflict.
(c) Obesity.
(d) Schizophrenia.

2. During a barbecue near the end of the school year, Elizabeth Frazer deliberately provkes Lisa Shilling. Why does she do this?
(a) She hopes to draw attention to Lisa's mental condition.
(b) She wants to get Lisa expelled from school.
(c) She knows she can easily win in a fight against Lisa.
(d) She wants Lisa to get arrested.

3. Rev. Fickett and Mr. Milne, a schoolteacher, talk to Mr. Shilling about Lisa Shilling's situation. Why is Mrs. Shilling not present for that conversation?
(a) She was not invited.
(b) She deliberately leaves the house to avoid the discussion.
(c) She was in the hospital recovering from surgery.
(d) The discussion was held at a men's club where women were not allowed.

4. Which major character has frequent visual and audible hallucinations?
(a) Lisa Shilling.
(b) Elizabeth Frazer.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Betsy Goodman.

5. Of whom does Lisa Shilling say "'You are quite the most rotten, sneaky, conniving little person I've ever known'" (p. 73)?
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Mary Nell Fickett.
(c) Brian Morris.
(d) Betsy Goodman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lisa Shilling hope to accomplish by walking deliberately through a floor-to-ceiling window?

2. When Mrs. Shilling arrived at the Goodman house just after Lisa Shilling's accident and saw a broken window, what was her first assumption?

3. Who first decides to try and help Lisa Shilling?

4. 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?

5. As Lisa Shilling's mental condition continues to deteriorate, how do her classmates respond?

(see the answer key)

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