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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. Mary Nell Fickett's approach to helping Lisa Shilling initially consists of...
(a) Trying to match Lisa's symptoms to a psychological diagnosis.
(b) Paying for Lisa to receive electro-shock therapy.
(c) Using Rorschach ink blot analysis techniques.
(d) Trying to hypnotize Lisa.

2. The first person to suspect that perhaps Lisa Shilling did have a mental illness was...
(a) Mrs. Shilling.
(b) Mr. Shilling.
(c) Betsy Goodman.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

3. Which character is described by the narrator as trying "to hard to be clever, too hard to be quick, too hard at everything except at being himself" (pp. 28-29)?
(a) Mr. Bernstein..
(b) Dr. Donovan.
(c) Mr. Shilling.
(d) Mr. Milne

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

5. Lisa Shilling's only sibling is..
(a) Ben, a younger brother.
(b) Tracy, a younger sister.
(c) Elizabeth, an older sister.
(d) Brian, an older brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Lisa Shilling's mental condition continues to deteriorate, how do her classmates respond?

3. Which character is the youngest major character of the novel?

4. While Mary Nell Fickett talks to Mrs. Shilling about Lisa Shilling, Betsy Goodman talks to whom?

5. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to tell her parents that she thinks she might be crazy because...

(see the answer key)

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