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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. 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) Mr. Shilling.
(c) Mr. Milne
(d) Dr. Donovan.

2. What is the profession of Betsy Goodman's father ?
(a) He's a school guidance counselor.
(b) He's an insurance salesman.
(c) He's a psychiatrist.
(d) He's a reverend.

3. The narrator compares her newly-built school to her old school and notes that both schools have the same...
(a) Tuna fish sandwiches every Friday.
(b) Style of lockers.
(c) Color of blackboards.
(d) Type of indirect lighting.

4. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?
(a) Frazer.
(b) Fickett.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Shilling.

5. Mary Nell Fickett and Betsy Goodman initially turn to what source of information to research mental illness?
(a) The1959 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
(b) Various Internet sites.
(c) Principles of Abnormal Psychology by Maslow and Mittelmann.
(d) The dictionary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first decides to try and help Lisa Shilling?

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

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

5. Which character's father maintains a large personal library with valuable reference books?

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