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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15 (Pages 60 - 96).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Mary Nell Fickett's confidence sinks, what happens to Betsy Goodman?
(a) Betsy loses interest in helping Lisa Shilling.
(b) Betsy's confidence increases.
(c) Betsy's confidence sinks, too.
(d) Betsy develops a crush on Elizabeth Frazer.

2. Who first decides to try and help Lisa Shilling?
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Tracy Shilling.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Betsy Goodman.

3. What diagnosis is described by "when someone wants to do something and yet knows he shouldn't, he reaches out for the thing he shouldn't have, remembers he shouldn't have it, and pulls back. He can go through this for hours, days, years, which makes him absolutely motionless, afraid to do anything" (p. 62)?
(a) Approach-avoidance conflict.
(b) Obesity.
(c) Downs syndrome.
(d) Schizophrenia.

4. Who eavesdrops on the conversation between Rev. Fickett, Mr. Milne, and Mr. Shilling when they discuss Lisa Shilling's mental illness?
(a) Lisa Shilling.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Elizabeth Frazer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Elizabeth Frazer, Betsy Goodman has something that Elizabeth and Mary Nell Fickett don't have. What are the three traits that Elizabeth enumerates?

2. Rev. Fickett and Mr. Milne, a schoolteacher, talk to Mr. Shilling about Lisa Shilling's situation. Why is Mrs. Shilling not present for that conversation?

3. Mary Nell Fickett and Betsy Goodman initially turn to what source of information to research mental illness?

4. Which major character says "'You're right about Lisa. You can't even begin to imagine how sick she is. But if you're going to sign up here, you have to expect a lot of rough play'" (p. 58)?

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

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