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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15 (Pages 60 - 96).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elizabeth Frazer tells Lisa Shilling that if she wants "'to play at sympathy and roses'" (p. 71) she should do what?
(a) Hire someone.
(b) Show up for the group therapy sessions.
(c) Stop wearing dark clothing and acting strange.
(d) Ask her little sister.

2. After Lisa Shilling's first public outburst of irrational behavior amidst a group of friends occurred, Mary Nell Fickett apologized by saying...
(a) That Lisa had just broken up with her boyfriend.
(b) Betsy and Lisa had been using psychedelic drugs.
(c) It was Lisa's menstrual cycle..
(d) She and Lisa were stressed about school

3. Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett try to diagnose Lisa Shilling by watching Elizabeth Taylor's performance in which movie?
(a) Raintree Country.
(b) Three Faces of Eve.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

4. Before moving to Long Island, Mary Nell Fickett lived in what U.S. State?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Utah.
(c) California.
(d) Montana.

5. Who does Lisa Shilling accuse of trying to steal Brian Morris away from her?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Tracy Shilling.
(c) Elizabeth Frazer.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who "counts less" (p. 12) than anyone else in the novel?

2. When Lisa Shilling first tells her father that she thinks she might be going crazy, he tells her...

3. The first person that Mary Nell Fickett confided in about Lisa Shilling's possible mental illness was...

4. Why does Lisa wait until her friend is present to talk about a serious medical condition with her parents?

5. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?

(see the answer key)

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