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

2. What book is the quote from?
(a) The Bell Jar.
(b) Moby Dick.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

3. Why won't her father pay her medical bills?
(a) He doesn't like her psychologist.
(b) He doesn't believe she is sick.
(c) He doesn't have the money.
(d) It's her mother's responsibility according the divorce agreement.

4. What concert does Elizabeth miss because she suddenly feels sick?
(a) Butthole Surfers.
(b) Grateful Dead.
(c) Aerosmith.
(d) Pink Floyd.

5. What happens to Elizabeth's mother?
(a) She's in a bad car accident.
(b) She has a drug overdose.
(c) She is robbed.
(d) She loses her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does she call, telling him/her that she is going straight to his/her apartment and needs a decent dinner because she cannot take care of herself?

2. According to Elizabeth, her roommate Samantha is a certain kind of "fucked up" -- what is her ailment?

3. Which one of these things is not one of the things that drives someone to depression, according to Elizabeth?

4. What is the secret life that Elizabeth has that her mother doesn't know about?

5. To whom does Elizabeth lose her virginity?

(see the answer key)

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