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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 5 (Pages 9 - 33).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport does Brian Morris play?
(a) Lacrosse.
(b) Rugby.
(c) Football.
(d) Hockey.

2. Which character is the youngest major character of the novel?
(a) Mary Nell Fickett.
(b) Lisa Shilling.
(c) Betsy Goodman.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

3. Why does Lisa wait until her friend is present to talk about a serious medical condition with her parents?
(a) The medical condition was caused by her friend.
(b) She hopes that her friend will act as a witness.
(c) She wants her friend to pay for the treatment.
(d) The medical condition is about her friend.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Just after Brian Morris breaks up with her, Lisa Shilling begins to befriend which major character?

2. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?

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

4. The narrator of the novel is...

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

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