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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elizabeth move to Texas to do?
(a) Work a summer job as an arts reporter for the Dallas Morning News.
(b) Write a novel about her mental health problems.
(c) Work as a writer for Rolling Stone.
(d) Find local bands for a recording agency.

2. Who does Elizabeth say is a mannequin with a few human functions?
(a) Archer.
(b) Rafe.
(c) Dr. Sterling.
(d) Her father.

3. What does Stone suggest is happening to her?
(a) She's having her period.
(b) She's imagining things.
(c) She's cut herself shaving.
(d) It's her roomate's idea of a joke.

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

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

6. How much money does Elizabeth's mother give her as she is leaving?
(a) $200
(b) $500
(c) $2000
(d) $5000

7. What makes him very different from Rafe?
(a) He hates her depressive episodes.
(b) He is obsessed with her.
(c) He is an orphan.
(d) He is at her house all the time.

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

9. What does Elizabeth immediately think when she wakes up in blood.
(a) That it is paint.
(b) That it is a joke.
(c) That she is dying.
(d) That someone has killed her.

10. Where is she dropped off after the break up?
(a) Their mutual friend Jim's apartment.
(b) The bus station.
(c) The airport.
(d) A rental car agency.

11. What is Elizabeth's diagnosis?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Manic-depressive.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Atypical depression.

12. Who wrote "Love is not a victory march / It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
(a) Bruce Springsteen.
(b) Edith Wharton.
(c) Leonard Cohen.
(d) Elizabeth Wurtzel.

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

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

15. What is Elizabeth biggest problem with Prozac initially?
(a) She hates all of the side effects like weight gain.
(b) It takes time to kick in.
(c) She has to take so many at a time.
(d) She is a guinea pig and no one knows what will happen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which drug does Dr. Sterling give her for her anxiety while at Stillman?

2. How does Elizabeth chose her doctor since she cannot have Dr. Saltenstahl?

3. What reruns does Elizabeth watch late at night?

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

5. What does Manuel say that Elizabeth must see before leaving London?

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