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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 20 (Pages 97 - 130).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. Lisa tries to tell her parents that she thinks she might be crazy because...
(a) She hears voices talking in her head.
(b) She can't stop thinking about Paul Newman.
(c) She's has nightmares constantly.
(d) She can't pass her English class.

2. After Elizabeth Frazer bluntly states that Lisa Shilling needs to be placed in a mental institution, how does Mrs. Shilling (Lisa's mother) respond?
(a) She says she'd like to help but Mr. Shilling has forbidden it.
(b) She tells Elizabeth that Lisa is already on the way to an asylum.
(c) She slaps Elizabeth and tells her to stay away from Lisa.
(d) She embraces Elizabeth and thanks her for her concern.

3. In the novel's title "Lisa, Bright and Dark", to what does the term "Dark" refer?
(a) Lisa's periods of relative normalcy.
(b) Lisa's relationship with her boyfriend Brian.
(c) Lisa's fascination with going to see movies.
(d) Lisa's periods of mental illness.

4. For what reason does the narrator believes that Mr. Bernstein and the school will not act in Lisa Shilling's best interests?
(a) Because they don't believe Lisa has a problem.
(b) Because they enjoy watching students suffer.
(c) Because they believe Betsy Goodman is telling lies.
(d) Because they are afraid of Lisa's parents' social influence.

5. 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?
(a) Health, wealth, and wisdom.
(b) Strength, dexterity, and constitution.
(c) Beauty, intelligence, and education.
(d) Warmth, naturalness, and simplicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Shilling meets with Rev. Fickett, Mr. Milne, and his daughter, and rejects their claim that Lisa Shilling is suffering from mental illness. What does Mr. Shilling do after the meeting ends?

2. When Betsy Goodman finds Mary Nell Fickett and Lisa Shilling in Mr. Milne's classroom, Lisa Shilling is hiding underneath Mr. Milne's desk and doing what?

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

4. During some group therapy sessions Mary Nell Fickett encourages Lisa Shilling to "free-associate" (p. 83). What does Mary Nell mean by this term?

5. Which major character is described as "a tall, blonde girl who seemed contained from within by taut wires strung from shoulder to shoulder, from head to hip. Self-contained and beautiful and distant, and suddenly mysterious" (pp. 59-60)?

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