Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elizabeth asks if depression is _________
(a) a joke?
(b) animal, vegetable or mineral?
(c) in her head?
(d) worth it?

2. Which one of these family members did not have problems with their mental health?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her grandmother.

3. Where does Elizabeth hang out the entire time she is at summer camp?
(a) The director's office.
(b) The end of the dock.
(c) In the kitchen with the cooks.
(d) The locker room at the pool.

4. Who or what starts to give Elizabeth her first feelings of pleasure in a long time?
(a) Bruce Springsteen.
(b) The cocktail of drugs she's taking.
(c) Abel, her friend's older brother.
(d) The ride on the subway train in the middle of the night.

5. What does Elizabeth's mom say she wants to do when she finds the pills in the drawer?
(a) Make her take a pregnancy test.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Throw Elizabeth out.
(d) Put her in a mental hospital.

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

7. What disease does Elizabeth fear the lithium will give her?
(a) Graves' disease.
(b) Hodgkins disease.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Lou Gehrig's disease.

8. What does Elizabeth realize while Ruby is chasing her?
(a) She left her dorm room unlocked.
(b) She is missing history class.
(c) This is insanity.
(d) She forgot to take lithium.

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

10. What does Elizabeth call Dr. Ira's office?
(a) Heaven.
(b) High Times.
(c) the Best Place for Drugs and Advice.
(d) the Fifth Avenue Crack House.

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

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

13. 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 is writing a novel.
(c) She skips school all day often.
(d) She is a drug addict to prescription pills.

14. Which one of these is NOT something Dr. Isaac says to Elizabeth?
(a) You are too young to feel all of this misery.
(b) You are a fragmented person.
(c) You have a split foundation.
(d) You're very precocious and sensible.

15. When Elizabeth calls her father this time, what topic does she bring up right away?
(a) His leaving New York without saying goodbye.
(b) His new wife.
(c) Paying for her psychologist.
(d) His own depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Elizabeth's friend at camp that she tries to explain her depression to?

2. Elizabeth's dad disappears at the end of her _______ year.

3. What is Ruby chasing Elizabeth with?

4. How many years does Elizabeth go to summer camp?

5. What does Elizabeth threaten she will do while at summer camp?

(see the answer keys)

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