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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is written on the card Elizabeth receives from her friend?
(a) 500,000 heroin addicts can't be wrong.
(b) Getting healthy is for the birds.
(c) Give me lithium or give me death!
(d) Drug use is the best abuse.

2. When Elizabeth is on the floor of the bathroom, what illegal drug is she currently on?
(a) Meth.
(b) Ectasy.
(c) Coke.
(d) Heroin.

3. What is the secret life that Elizabeth has that her mother doesn't know about?
(a) She has a boyfriend and goes to his house all day instead of school.
(b) She skips school all day often.
(c) She is writing a novel.
(d) She is a drug addict to prescription pills.

4. Where does Elizabeth's father move to after disappearing from New York?
(a) California.
(b) Texas.
(c) Florida.
(d) Georgia.

5. 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.

6. How many years does Elizabeth go to summer camp?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

8. What is the name of Elizabeth's new boyfriend after her father leaves?
(a) Lyle.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Zacharias.
(d) Zachary.

9. Where does Elizabeth's mom go for three weeks when Elizabeth is three years old?
(a) To Israel.
(b) To Poland.
(c) To the Caribbean.
(d) To California.

10. What was Elizabeth born in the middle of?
(a) The Summer of Love.
(b) Woodstock.
(c) The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
(d) A Volkswagon bus.

11. What quote does Elizabeth use to describe how depression hits her?
(a) "It just happened out of the blue."
(b) "It hits you like an out of control racecar."
(c) "Gradually and then suddenly."
(d) "You wake up one day a different person."

12. What makes Elizabeth's move to Harvard ominous?
(a) It's raining.
(b) They lose record of where Elizabeth should live.
(c) Their car breaks down.
(d) She and her mother get lost.

13. How frequently does Elizabeth hear from her father now?
(a) Once in awhile.
(b) Every other week.
(c) Every six months.
(d) Never.

14. Where does Elizabeth cut herself during lunch?
(a) In the girls' locker room.
(b) On a back staircase in the back of school.
(c) In the girls' bathroom.
(d) In her friend's car.

15. Which of these things does Elizabeth NOT wish to be instead of depression?
(a) A cokehead.
(b) Any real ailment.
(c) A junkie.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elizabeth end up when the coke wears off?

2. Elizabeth describes depression as an "absence" of many things; which one of these is not one of the absences she mentions?

3. Which college did Elizabeth's mother attend?

4. Why does Elizabeth have to leave the party in the beginning?

5. How does Elizabeth describe her depression?

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