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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What concert does Elizabeth miss because she suddenly feels sick?
(a) Butthole Surfers.
(b) Aerosmith.
(c) Pink Floyd.
(d) Grateful Dead.

3. Which fairy tale does her new apartment remind Elizabeth of?
(a) The Princess and the Pea.
(b) The Ugly Duckling.
(c) Red Riding Hood.
(d) Snow White.

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

5. Where doe Elizabeth live after Dallas?
(a) London.
(b) California.
(c) Paris.
(d) Cambridge.

6. Where does Rafe plan to return after his graduation?
(a) Detriot.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Minneapolis.

7. Which one of these is NOT a couple that Elizabeth mentions always falling for one another?
(a) Clyde will always find his Bonnie.
(b) Samson will always fall for Delilah.
(c) F. Scott will always recognize his Zelda.
(d) Sid will always find Nancy.

8. 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.

9. Who does Elizabeth date after Rafe?
(a) Noel.
(b) No one.
(c) Stone.
(d) Nathan.

10. 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) A recent Yale graduate she met at the Rolling Stone College Journalism Award luncheon.
(c) The drummer from the Butthole Surfers.
(d) Noah, her friend from Harvard with whom she often takes Ectasy.

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

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

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

14. What book is Elizabeth reading when she is in the infirmary?
(a) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
(b) Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.
(c) Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
(d) Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "And the thing about my mom is that she's totally nuts, but she's very _________."

2. What is Elizabeth studying at Harvard?

3. What year does Elizabeth move to Texas?

4. Who does Elizabeth call to take her to her birthday party where her mother is?

5. How does Elizabeth get food poisoning?

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