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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 and 22 (Pages 131 - 143).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first person that Mary Nell Fickett confided in about Lisa Shilling's possible mental illness was...
(a) Neil Donovan.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Elizabeth Frazer.
(d) Mrs. Shilling.

2. For what reason does the narrator believes that Mr. Bernstein and the school will not act in Lisa Shilling's best interests?
(a) Because they don't believe Lisa has a problem.
(b) Because they believe Betsy Goodman is telling lies.
(c) Because they are afraid of Lisa's parents' social influence.
(d) Because they enjoy watching students suffer.

3. Why does Lisa Shilling survive her second suicide attempt?
(a) She engineered the attempt as a cry for help and probably didn't really intend to kill herself.
(b) The rope broke when she tried to hang herself and she didn't have the strength to try again.
(c) She thought she took sleeping pills but instead took birth control pills.
(d) Her sister Tracy found out Lisa had taken drugs and immediately called the police before the drugs were all the way into Lisa's system.

4. Betsy Goodman states that she is...
(a) Near-sighted.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Paralyzed from the waist down.
(d) Mute.

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) Reading a book about psychiatry.
(c) Copying the answer key to the next day's examination.
(d) Sobbing about her break up with Brian Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Several days after Lisa Shilling's apparent suicide attempt, which major character suddenly "didn't show up for school" (p. 119)?

2. 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?

3. How does Mrs. Shilling respond when Mary Nell Fickett tries to tell her that Lisa Shilling has a mental illness that needs treatment?

4. Of the four major characters in the novel, which one eventually becomes the decision-maker of the group?

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

(see the answer key)

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