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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. When Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett finally tell Lisa Shilling that the know she is mentally ill, Lisa Shilling responds by...
(a) Asking how they think they can help.
(b) Attacking them with a knife.
(c) Telling them they are out of line.
(d) Denying anything is wrong.

2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?
(a) Lays on her bead and smashes her head against the headboard.
(b) Moves out of the house to live with her boyfriend.
(c) Goes shopping with her friends.
(d) Goes to school and flunks her English test.

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

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

5. 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) Repeatedly sticking a pin into her wrist.
(b) Copying the answer key to the next day's examination.
(c) Reading a book about psychiatry.
(d) Sobbing about her break up with Brian Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which major character suggests that Elizabeth Frazer should join Lisa Shilling's impromptu group therapy sessions?

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

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

4. The novel begins with a recalled conversation between Lisa Shilling and her parents. Which of Lisa's acquaintances is present for the conversation?

5. Betsy Goodman says her father calls "choosing what you want to hear and concentrating only on that" (p. 18) by the phrase...

(see the answer key)

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