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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. Who is Debi Thomas?
(a) The ice skater Elizabeth idolizes on television.
(b) The nurse who helps her at the infirmary.
(c) Her new best friend at Harvard.
(d) Her new doctor.

2. 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.

3. What job does Elizabeth take at night while in Harvard?
(a) Working job security two nights a week.
(b) Writing music reviews for the Harvard newspaper.
(c) Playing DJ to a local small club.
(d) Waiting tables two nights a week.

4. What is one of the excuses Elizabeth does NOT use with Dr. Sterling to account for the accidental blowjob?
(a) She's an alcoholic.
(b) She's a narcoleptic.
(c) The time change.
(d) The Mellaril.

5. How does Elizabeth describe her life in Cambridge?
(a) Too exciting for her to tackle her depression.
(b) Calm and uneventful.
(c) Boring and dull.
(d) A hospital stay in a new country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Elizabeth says she comes from a family of:

2. Who calls who?

3. What does Elizabeth NOT compare madness to?

4. 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?

5. What happens to Elizabeth's mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Dr. Sterling give Elizabeth Xanax instead of an antidepressant, which she believes is more appropriate for her issues?

4. How do Manuel and Elizabeth finally get together?

5. How does Elizabeth feel when she first arrives in Dallas?

6. What does Dr. Sterling think that Elizabeth must continue to do while at Stillman Infirmary?

7. Why does Elizabeth finally learn her diagnosis now?

8. Elizabeth says if she had any purpose at all, what would she do in London?

9. How do the doctors react when Elizabeth is brought into the hospital covered in blood?

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

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