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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. What aspect of Betsy Goodman's appearance is "three thousand dollars' perfect" (p. 12)?
(a) Her posture.
(b) Her nose.
(c) Her teeth.
(d) Her breasts.

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

3. Which character's father is a minister?
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Lisa Shilling.

4. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. What does Lisa tell her parents during this conversation?
(a) That she is dropping out of high school.
(b) That she is engaged to Brian Morris.
(c) That she thinks she's going crazy.
(d) That she is failing algebra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel is set in what U.S. State?

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

3. Why does Lisa wait until her friend is present to talk about a serious medical condition with her parents?

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

5. The narrator states that Mr. Shilling's primary motivation is...

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