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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. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, her parents performed what action?
(a) They filed a restraining order against Brian Morris.
(b) They filed a lawsuit against the school.
(c) They sent Lisa alone to Florida for six weeks.
(d) They incarcerated Lisa in a mental institution.

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

3. Betsy Goodman says her father calls "choosing what you want to hear and concentrating only on that" (p. 18) by the phrase...
(a) Wishful thinking.
(b) A blind spot.
(c) Living in your own world.
(d) Selective inattention.

4. The narrator states that Mr. Shilling's primary motivation is...
(a) Fashion.
(b) Power.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Money.

5. Mary Nell Fickett and Betsy Goodman compile a list of psychological conditions including paranoia, schizophrenia, split-personality, and paranoia. To whom do they think this list applies?
(a) Jeremy Bernstein.
(b) Brian Morris.
(c) Lisa Shilling.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Betsy Goodman states that she is...

2. 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)?

3. The school guidance counselor's name is...

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

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

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