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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10 (Pages 33 - 60).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Brian Morris break up his relationship with Lisa Shilling?
(a) Because Lisa's behavior is erratic and nonsensical.
(b) Because Lisa's family is poor and he wants to date a rich girl.
(c) Because he wants to date Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Because he realizes he's homosexual.

2. What trait is referred to in the novel as "'Locust Valley Lockjaw'" (p. 30)?
(a) Refusing to eat insects.
(b) Talking without moving your mouth.
(c) Refusing to apologize for anything.
(d) Refusing to say something bad about someone.

3. The narrator describes Jeremy Bernstein as being shaped like what letter of the alphabet?
(a) J.
(b) L.
(c) O.
(d) C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What aspect of Betsy Goodman's appearance is "three thousand dollars' perfect" (p. 12)?

3. Which character's father is a minister?

4. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, her parents performed what action?

5. In the novel's title "Lisa, Bright and Dark", to what does the term "Bright" refer?

(see the answer key)

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