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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Think of Pretty Things.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elizabeth want to live from now on?
(a) In a dull monotone.
(b) In-between.
(c) With extreme highs and lows.
(d) Only happy all the time.

2. What is the biggest advantage to seeing Dr. Isaac?
(a) He gives her drugs.
(b) He gets her away from her mother for a little while.
(c) He lets her skip school by writing her a doctor's note.
(d) Elizabeth can leave school early; she hates school.

3. What reruns does Elizabeth watch late at night?
(a) Green Acres.
(b) Mary Tyler Moore.
(c) Mr. Ed.
(d) The Jeffersons.

4. Which one of these drugs is not part of Elizabeth's usual cocktail to fight depression?
(a) lithium.
(b) desipramine.
(c) Ambien.
(d) Prozac.

5. Which of these is NOT a way that Elizabeth imagines dying?
(a) In a swimming pool like the opening shot of Sunset Boulevard.
(b) Drown deliberately like Virginia Woolf.
(c) Like Sylvia Plath with her head in the oven.
(d) Go overboard like Natalie Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Elizabeth envy sexually?

2. What floor does Elizabeth live on in her Harvard dorm room?

3. Why are Elizabeth's parents suddenly talking again when she is in the eighth grade?

4. What does Elizabeth think every time she thinks about her father?

5. What food does Elizabeth want after her suicide attempt?

(see the answer key)

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