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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elizabeth describe Rafe's mother?
(a) A natural caretaker.
(b) A screaming angry woman.
(c) An incredibly beautiful woman.
(d) A high-maintenance hysteric.

2. What is the name of Samantha's ex-boyfriend?
(a) Barnaby.
(b) Manuel.
(c) Archer.
(d) Avon.

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

4. Which of these is NOT a way that Elizabeth cracked up while in Dallas?
(a) She walks into work at three in the afternoon.
(b) She is tearing through a number of new boyfriends each week.
(c) She regularly has drug overdoses.
(d) She returns personal phone calls while at work all day.

5. What reruns does Elizabeth watch late at night?
(a) Mr. Ed.
(b) The Jeffersons.
(c) Mary Tyler Moore.
(d) Green Acres.

6. How does Elizabeth get food poisoning?
(a) The clam sandwich at the Tate Gallery.
(b) Raw oysters at the Tate Gallery.
(c) Quiche at the Tate Gallery.
(d) Fried fish sandwich at the Tate Gallery.

7. Archer is so flawlessly handsome that he actually seems ______________.
(a) Sterile.
(b) Evil.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Fake.

8. Which of these is NOT a book that Elizabeth is taking with her?
(a) Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting."
(b) Homer's "Odyssey."
(c) Derrida's "Margins of Philosophy."
(d) Freud's "Totem and Taboo."

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

10. What is Rafe's profession?
(a) He is an actor.
(b) He is a writer.
(c) He is a student.
(d) He is a playwright.

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

12. Who takes care of Elizabeth after Rafe breaks up with her?
(a) A random man she starts talking to in the coffee shop.
(b) His roommate.
(c) His new girlfriend.
(d) Her mother drives to Brown to save her.

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

14. Which one of these things does Elizabeth NOT swear off while in Cambridge?
(a) Bad influences.
(b) Boyfriends.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Drinking.

15. Why does Elizabeth agree to go to Stillman again?
(a) She thinks it's the only place that makes her happy.
(b) Dr. Sterling has ordered it.
(c) She's too tired to do anything else.
(d) She has a crush on a guy there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is she dropped off after the break up?

3. How much money does Elizabeth's mother give her as she is leaving?

4. What is Elizabeth's diagnosis?

5. What book is Elizabeth reading when she is in the infirmary?

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