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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. According to the narrator, who "counts less" (p. 12) than anyone else in the novel?
(a) Lisa Shilling.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

2. When Betsy Goodman finds Mary Nell Fickett and Lisa Shilling in Mr. Milne's classroom, Lisa Shilling is hiding underneath Mr. Milne's desk and doing what?
(a) Copying the answer key to the next day's examination.
(b) Repeatedly sticking a pin into her wrist.
(c) Reading a book about psychiatry.
(d) Sobbing about her break up with Brian Morris.

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

4. The narrator compares her newly-built school to her old school and notes that both schools have the same...
(a) Type of indirect lighting.
(b) Style of lockers.
(c) Tuna fish sandwiches every Friday.
(d) Color of blackboards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lisa Shilling accuse of trying to steal Brian Morris away from her?

2. Which character is the youngest major character of the novel?

3. Which character's father is a minister?

4. Betsy Goodman wants Lisa Shilling to teach her how to do what strange behavior?

5. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to tell her parents that she thinks she might be crazy because...

(see the answer key)

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