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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives Elizabeth a renewed sense of hope?
(a) Rafe comes back to her.
(b) She thinks Stillman is her future home for good.
(c) She can look up her disease in a book.
(d) Her parents reconcile.

2. Which television show wants her to come on as a guest?
(a) Oprah!
(b) Phil Donahue.
(c) Sally Jesse Raphael.
(d) Jerry Springer.

3. What does Barnaby offer Elizabeth when she arrives?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A hit of acid.
(c) Orange juice.
(d) A Pepsi.

4. "And the thing about my mom is that she's totally nuts, but she's very _________."
(a) Happy.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Normal.
(d) Interesting.

5. What does Elizabeth think stops her from being perfectly happy in Dallas?
(a) The lack of a counterculture.
(b) Being so far away from her mother.
(c) Not having a car.
(d) The silicone brothers and sisters everywhere.

6. What does Elizabeth NOT compare madness to?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) the fiery hot tempers of Latin America.
(c) A whirlpool in the Pacific.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

7. Who is Rhoda Koenig?
(a) A book critic for the New York magazine.
(b) Elizabeth's new boss.
(c) Manuel's ex-girlfriend.
(d) Elizabeth's flatmate after Manuel.

8. What are Elizabeth's main symptoms in Stillman?
(a) Anxiety and agitation.
(b) Suicidal thoughts and hallucinations.
(c) Drug and alcohol addiction.
(d) Depression and alcoholism.

9. What year does Elizabeth move to Texas?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1986.

10. What famous band does Elizabeth interview while in Deep Ellum.
(a) The Butthole Surfers.
(b) The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
(c) Aerosmith.
(d) The Rolling Stones.

11. Elizabeth believes that Rafe relishes being her personal __________.
(a) Slave.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Butler.

12. What were the only good thing about Sundays for Elizabeth when she lived on campus?
(a) Cocoa Krispies.
(b) Pancakes in the cafeteria.
(c) Sleeping and catching up on homework.
(d) Brunch at the mess hall.

13. To whom does Elizabeth lose her virginity?
(a) A young, good-looking guy she spent hours talking to one night -- but never got his name.
(b) Noah, her friend from Harvard with whom she often takes Ectasy.
(c) A recent Yale graduate she met at the Rolling Stone College Journalism Award luncheon.
(d) The drummer from the Butthole Surfers.

14. Who calls who?
(a) Elizabeth's friend Ruby calls Rafe to convince him to call Elizabeth.
(b) Their mutual friend Jim calls Elizabeth on behalf of Rafe
(c) Rafe calls Elizabeth.
(d) Elizabeth calls Rafe.

15. What do her friends suggest she read instead in order to be happy to be alive?
(a) Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
(b) Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
(c) Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elizabeth move to Texas to do?

2. What other movie does Elizabeth cry at continuously when she is younger?

3. What has clearly been a failure for Dr. Sterling?

4. Which one of these is not a form of speed that Elizabeth craves?

5. How does Elizabeth describe Rafe's mother?

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