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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. 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.

2. "Instead of being Depressed Girl, I'm _______ Girl."
(a) Happy.
(b) Blank.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Neurotic.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the name of the next new pill that Elizabeth must try?
(a) Thorazine.
(b) Prozac.
(c) Desyrdril.
(d) Lithium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does she call, telling him/her that she is going straight to his/her apartment and needs a decent dinner because she cannot take care of herself?

2. What does Elizabeth NOT compare madness to?

3. Who does Elizabeth date after Rafe?

4. Which of these is NOT a book that Elizabeth is taking with her?

5. Where does Rafe plan to return after his graduation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elizabeth's Space, Time and Motion class become symbolic of?

2. What does Elizabeth find ironic about her decision to find a new psychologist?

3. Why does Elizabeth refuse to appear on the Oprah! show?

4. What does Elizabeth believe one of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is?

5. Elizabeth cries over a movie when she is younger. What is the movie? Why does she cry after this movie? What is her mother's reaction? Is her mother's interpretation correct? Why or why not?

6. Why does Dr. Sterling give Elizabeth Mellaril, the antipsychotic known to help schizophrenics?

7. What about the Dallas music industry surprises Elizabeth when she arrives?

8. Elizabeth is finally diagnosed with atypical depression. Describe what this disease is.

9. How does Elizabeth describe the difference between madness and depression in relation to literature?

10. Why is Elizabeth's mother disappointed in her when she comes to visit her in Dallas?

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