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

2. Just after Brian Morris breaks up with her, Lisa Shilling begins to befriend which major character?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Mary Nell Fickett.
(c) Neil Donovan.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

3. The narrator states that Lisa Shilling's oldest friend is...
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Shirley MacLaine.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Betsy Goodman.

4. 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)?
(a) Mrs. Shilling.
(b) Mrs. Fickett..
(c) Mrs. Frazer.
(d) Mrs. Goodman.

5. Whom does the narrator describe as being enthusiastic but not very practical?
(a) Rev. Fickett.
(b) Mr. Bernstein.
(c) Mr. Frazer.
(d) Mr. Shilling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lisa Shilling spends her six-week vacation in Florida doing what?

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

3. The first person that Mary Nell Fickett confided in about Lisa Shilling's possible mental illness was...

4. In the novel's title "Lisa, Bright and Dark", to what does the term "Bright" refer?

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

(see the answer key)

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