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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. While Mary Nell Fickett talks to Mrs. Shilling about Lisa Shilling, Betsy Goodman talks to whom?
(a) Mr. Bernstein.
(b) Mr. Shilling.
(c) Mr. Milne.
(d) Mr. Fickett.

2. When Mary Nell Fickett talks to her father about Lisa Shilling, how does her father respond?
(a) He tells her she probably won't be able to help and refuses to get involved.
(b) He offers to call the police about Lisa's situation.
(c) He tells her she is doing more harm than good.
(d) He tells her she probably won't be able to help but offers to get involved.

3. Which major character has frequent visual and audible hallucinations?
(a) Elizabeth Frazer.
(b) Betsy Goodman.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Lisa Shilling.

4. 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. Shilling.
(b) Dr. Donovan.
(c) Mr. Bernstein..
(d) Mr. Milne

5. Betsy Goodman and Mary Nell Fickett try to diagnose Lisa Shilling by watching Elizabeth Taylor's performance in which movie?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Raintree Country.
(c) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
(d) Three Faces of Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Betsy Goodman asks Jeremy Bernstein about Lisa Shilling's mental illness. Bernstein responds by...

2. The opening chapter of the novel is a conversation held in the kitchen belonging to which family?

3. What sport does Brian Morris play?

4. Lisa Shilling's conversation with her parents opens the novel. After that conversation what does Lisa do?

5. Betsy Goodman says her father calls "choosing what you want to hear and concentrating only on that" (p. 18) by the phrase...

(see the answer key)

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