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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What floor does Elizabeth live on in her Harvard dorm room?
(a) The first floor.
(b) The sixth floor.
(c) The fifth floor.
(d) The tenth floor.

2. Which concert do Elizabeth and her new boyfriend attend together?
(a) U2.
(b) The Beach Boys.
(c) Duran Duran.
(d) The Police.

3. Where does Elizabeth go after Ruby catches her?
(a) The Mental Health facilities at the University Hospital.
(b) Straight to the library to hide in a cubicle.
(c) Back to New York to see her mother.
(d) To a hotel room for the night.

4. What is the mental health facility called at Harvard?
(a) King Infirmary.
(b) Stillman Infirmary.
(c) Einstein Laboratories.
(d) Broughton.

5. Elizabeth's dad disappears at the end of her _______ year.
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Junior.
(c) Senior.
(d) Freshman.

6. How does Elizabeth's mother treat her?
(a) Like a drug addict.
(b) Like a deranged lunatic.
(c) Like a normal kid.
(d) Like she's not even there.

7. What does Elizabeth think every time she thinks about her father?
(a) I want to live with you.
(b) I want a new life.
(c) I want to kill you.
(d) I want to do drugs.

8. What does Elizabeth threaten she will do while at summer camp?
(a) Accuse him of child molestation.
(b) Get pregnant with his child.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Take a drug overdose.

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

10. Why does Elizabeth's dad have so many lawyers?
(a) No lawyer think he has a legitimate case.
(b) They are all friends with Elizabeth's mom.
(c) He thinks all of them are idiots.
(d) He doesn't pay their bills and they fire him.

11. Elizabeth describes depression as an "absence" of many things; which one of these is not one of the absences she mentions?
(a) Absence of feeling.
(b) Absence of response.
(c) Absence of faith.
(d) Absence of interest.

12. Where do Elizabeth and her mother cruise to after she and her boyfriend break up?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) The Caribbean.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Bermuda.

13. What does Elizabeth's mother attribute her recent changes to?
(a) Her mother's new marriage.
(b) Menstrual blood.
(c) Her father leaving.
(d) Her new sibling.

14. How does Elizabeth's mother see Oliver North?
(a) As a misguided fanatic.
(b) As a hero.
(c) As a terrorist.
(d) As a loser.

15. What improves Elizabeth's relationship with her mother that five years of therapy could not accomplish?
(a) Her mother's new boyfriend.
(b) Her improved grades.
(c) Her new boyfriend.
(d) Her new haircut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of these family members did not have problems with their mental health?

2. How does Elizabeth feel about going to see Dr. Isaac twice a week?

3. Why does Elizabeth think she tried her first overdose?

4. Elizabeth asks if depression is _________

5. Why won't her father pay her medical bills?

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