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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 opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?
(a) Shilling.
(b) Fickett.
(c) Frazer.
(d) Goodman.

2. According to the narrator, Jeremy Bernstein's primary job function is...
(a) Trying to help drug addicts stop abusing drugs.
(b) Parking cars at the country club that Mr. Shilling frequents.
(c) Making sure that students attend their courses and arrive to school on time.
(d) Helping graduating students pick three colleges to receive their transcripts.

3. During one early group therapy session, why does Mary Nell Fickett get angry with Elizabeth Frazer?
(a) Because Elizabeth doesn't think Paul Newman is attractive.
(b) Because Elizabeth tells Mary Nell she won't find answers in books.
(c) Because Elizabeth uses a lot of profanity when she speaks.
(d) Because Elizabeth keeps blowing bubbles with her bubblegum.

4. After Elizabeth Frazer bluntly states that Lisa Shilling needs to be placed in a mental institution, how does Mrs. Shilling (Lisa's mother) respond?
(a) She tells Elizabeth that Lisa is already on the way to an asylum.
(b) She says she'd like to help but Mr. Shilling has forbidden it.
(c) She slaps Elizabeth and tells her to stay away from Lisa.
(d) She embraces Elizabeth and thanks her for her concern.

5. As Mrs. Shilling begins to realize that perhaps her daughter Lisa really is suffering from mental illness, what is one of her first responses?
(a) She blames Lisa's father for causing the mental illness.
(b) She runs away from her family.
(c) She blames Lisa's friends for causing the mental illness.
(d) She starts to use psychedelic drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who is "the gasp!!!!" (p. 23) of the school?

2. The narrator of the novel is...

3. Mary Nell Fickett states Lisa Shilling's diagnosis is "'a paranoid or a schizophrenic, and maybe both together'" (p. 68). Elizabeth Frazer disagrees and states Lisa's diagnosis is...

4. After spending a few hours researching various topics in psychology and mental illness, Betsy Goodman is confused and decides to...

5. Which character is described by the narrator as looking "like Shelley Winters playing a roadhouse pick-up...stretch-pants two sizes too small, preshrunk sweaters with classic midriff bulge, a fur coat slung over her shoulders, and a scarf hiding the curlers in her hair" (p. 29)?

(see the answer key)

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