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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 embraces Elizabeth and thanks her for her concern.
(b) She says she'd like to help but Mr. Shilling has forbidden it.
(c) She tells Elizabeth that Lisa is already on the way to an asylum.
(d) She slaps Elizabeth and tells her to stay away from Lisa.

2. Although Elizabeth Frazer is beautiful and "[b]oys thought she was sensational" (p. 97) she does not seem to have any friends or boyfriends. The narrator states this is because Elizabeth has what quality?
(a) What seemed like coldness.
(b) She extensively uses profanity.
(c) She is constantly burping and farting.
(d) People believe her to be a drug user.

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) Downs syndrome.
(b) Obesity.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Approach-avoidance conflict.

4. After Lisa Shilling walks through a floor-to-ceiling window and is taken to the hospital, Mr. Goodman, Betsy Goodman, Mary Nell Fickett, and Elizabeth Frazer all attempt to convince Mrs. Shilling that Lisa's actions were a cry for help. How does Mrs. Shilling respond?
(a) She thinks Lisa was pushed by Betsy.
(b) She tells the girls they are making it all up.
(c) She thinks Betsy has tried to harm Lisa.
(d) She believes them.

5. 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 wants to join a new religion.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she has contracted a serious infectious disease.

6. Which major character does Mrs. Shilling address as "'some sixteen-year-old bitch-to-be'" (p. 116)?
(a) Betsy Goodman.
(b) Elizabeth Frazer.
(c) Mary Nell Fickett.
(d) Lisa Shilling.

7. As the group therapy sessions continue, why does Mary Nell Fickett lose confidence?
(a) She realizes she doesn't know anything about psychology.
(b) She realizes she is not in charge.
(c) Because Lisa Shilling doesn't seem to get any better.
(d) Because Elizabeth Frazer is much more beautiful than Mary Nell.

8. 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 but offers to get involved.
(b) He tells her she is doing more harm than good.
(c) He tells her she probably won't be able to help and refuses to get involved.
(d) He offers to call the police about Lisa's situation.

9. Elizabeth Frazer, Betsy Goodman, and Mary Nell Fickett's intense and initial conversation about diagnosing Lisa Shilling is interrupted when...
(a) Lisa knocks on the closet door from the inside.
(b) Lisa arrives at the schoolyard.
(c) Mary Nell runs out of the room in tears.
(d) Elizabeth slaps Mary Nell.

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

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

12. What does Betsy Goodman conclude in the definition of madness?
(a) A chemical imbalance in the brain.
(b) Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
(c) Doing just the opposite of what you wanted to do.
(d) Being paranoid without a good reason.

13. Why does Lisa Shilling attack Elizabeth Frazer?
(a) Because Elizabeth deliberately provokes her.
(b) Because Elizabeth secretly has been dating Brian Morris.
(c) Because Elizabeth says Paul Newman is a bad actor.
(d) Because Elizabeth says Lisa is a phony.

14. During a barbecue near the end of the school year, Elizabeth Frazer deliberately provkes Lisa Shilling. Why does she do this?
(a) She wants Lisa to get arrested.
(b) She knows she can easily win in a fight against Lisa.
(c) She hopes to draw attention to Lisa's mental condition.
(d) She wants to get Lisa expelled from school.

15. What does Mary Nell Fickett do as she continues to participate in group therapy sessions with Lisa Shilling?
(a) She secretly dates Brian Morris.
(b) She thinks that Lisa is faking her mental illness.
(c) She begins to use hallucinogenic drugs.
(d) She reads many books on mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What epiphany does Betsy Goodman have immediately after Lisa Shilling attacks Elizabeth Frazer?

2. Elizabeth Frazer agrees to try to help Lisa Shilling only after...

3. Mary Nell Fickett says that Lisa Shilling's behavior is "ridiculous...[for]...two reasons" (p. 67). What are the two reasons?

4. As Mrs. Shilling begins to realize that perhaps her daughter Lisa really is suffering from mental illness, what is one of her first responses?

5. What happens on the first organized group therapy session including Lisa Shilling, Elizabeth Frazer, Mary Nell Fickett, and Betsy Goodman?

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