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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 begins the novel with a goal to be the first woman justice on the Supreme Court and ends the novel contemplating a career in psychology?
(a) Lisa Shilling.
(b) Elizabeth Frazer.
(c) Betsy Goodman.
(d) Mary Nell Fickett.

2. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?
(a) Goes shopping with her friends.
(b) Lays on her bead and smashes her head against the headboard.
(c) Goes to school and flunks her English test.
(d) Moves out of the house to live with her boyfriend.

3. Betsy Goodman asks Jeremy Bernstein about Lisa Shilling's mental illness. Bernstein responds by...
(a) Telling Betsy to focus on her schoolwork and leave Lisa alone.
(b) Suggesting Betsy is doing more harm than good.
(c) Saying he will take over Lisa's therapy.
(d) Saying Betsy won't be able to help but offering to lend Betsy some books.

4. After Lisa Shilling's first public outburst of irrational behavior amidst a group of friends occurred, Mary Nell Fickett apologized by saying...
(a) That Lisa had just broken up with her boyfriend.
(b) Betsy and Lisa had been using psychedelic drugs.
(c) She and Lisa were stressed about school
(d) It was Lisa's menstrual cycle..

5. According to the narrator, Jeremy Bernstein's primary job function is...
(a) Parking cars at the country club that Mr. Shilling frequents.
(b) Trying to help drug addicts stop abusing drugs.
(c) Making sure that students attend their courses and arrive to school on time.
(d) Helping graduating students pick three colleges to receive their transcripts.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After Lisa Shilling's self-mutilation episode at school, Jeremy Bernstein diagnoses Lisa's condition as...

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 "Dark" refer?

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

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