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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. When Rev. Fickett and Mr. Milne tell Mr. Shilling that his daughter Lisa is in serious trouble, what is Mr. Shilling's first assumption about Lisa's problem?
(a) That she has been cheating on school work.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she has contracted a serious infectious disease.
(d) That she wants to join a new religion.

2. Elizabeth Frazer agrees to try to help Lisa Shilling...
(a) If she [Elizabeth] gets paid for her time.
(b) If Lisa will do Elizabeth's homework for a month.
(c) If she [Elizabeth] can date Brian Morris.
(d) Without any conditions.

3. Lisa Shilling tells her friends that she is always tired. Why is she always tired?
(a) Because when she tries to sleep she hears many voices talking to her.
(b) Because she likes to stay up late watching television.
(c) Because her father makes her clean house for several hours every night.
(d) Because she sneaks out at night to visit her boyfriend Brian Morris.

4. Which character is described by the narrator as a "quiet, distinguished-looking man about sixty who has real style...[he] can talk with you and make you feel instantly at home" (p. 30)?
(a) Mr. Shilling.
(b) Rev. Fickett.
(c) Mr. Frazer.
(d) Mr. Bernstein.

5. Elizabeth Frazer tells Lisa Shilling that if she wants "'to play at sympathy and roses'" (p. 71) she should do what?
(a) Stop wearing dark clothing and acting strange.
(b) Show up for the group therapy sessions.
(c) Ask her little sister.
(d) Hire someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which major character always eats fattening foods like mayonnaise but still has a slim figure?

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

3. The first person to suspect that perhaps Lisa Shilling did have a mental illness was...

4. Early in their developing friendship, Lisa Shillings makes Betsy Goodman promise that...

5. The narrator describes which major character as fulfilling the role of school princess (that is, regal, cool, far off, blonde, and slim)?

(see the answer key)

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