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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elizabeth describes depression as an "absence" of many things; which one of these is not one of the absences she mentions?
(a) Absence of feeling.
(b) Absence of response.
(c) Absence of faith.
(d) Absence of interest.

2. Where does Elizabeth go after Ruby catches her?
(a) To a hotel room for the night.
(b) Straight to the library to hide in a cubicle.
(c) The Mental Health facilities at the University Hospital.
(d) Back to New York to see her mother.

3. What makes Elizabeth's move to Harvard ominous?
(a) They lose record of where Elizabeth should live.
(b) It's raining.
(c) Their car breaks down.
(d) She and her mother get lost.

4. What does Elizabeth's mom find when she puts a ruler away that she's found?
(a) Bottles of alcohol.
(b) Ortho-Novum birth control pills.
(c) Pot.
(d) Illegal drugs.

5. Where do Elizabeth and her mother move to?
(a) California.
(b) The Upper West Side.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elizabeth react to her mother's outrage?

2. How old is Elizabeth when her parents get divorced?

3. Where does Elizabeth cut herself during lunch?

4. What is the mental health facility called at Harvard?

5. Where does Elizabeth's father move to after disappearing from New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Zachary break up with Elizabeth?

2. How does Elizabeth compensate for her parents' constant arguing?

3. At the beginning of the party, what happens to Elizabeth's cat?

4. How does Elizabeth feel when she gets on the phone with her father and what do they argue about?

5. Why does Elizabeth start to cut herself?

6. What does Elizabeth finally become resigned to?

7. Why does Elizabeth want Sam?

8. How does physical contact with Abel make Elizabeth feel?

9. What is the Catch-22-like situation that Elizabeth finds herself in?

10. Why does Elizabeth wish she had a real ailment or drug addiction instead of depression?

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