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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 happens in the world simultaneously when Elizabeth wakes up in blood?
(a) Kurt Cobain from Nirvana kills himself.
(b) The stock market crashes 508 points.
(c) The World Trade Center is bombed.
(d) Iranian hostages hijack an American plane.

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

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

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

5. Why does Elizabeth agree to go to Stillman again?
(a) She thinks it's the only place that makes her happy.
(b) She's too tired to do anything else.
(c) She has a crush on a guy there.
(d) Dr. Sterling has ordered it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where doe Elizabeth live after Dallas?

2. Which television show wants her to come on as a guest?

3. Which one of these is NOT a couple that Elizabeth mentions always falling for one another?

4. Who does Dr. Sterling contact with Elizabeth's permission?

5. What is Rafe's profession?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Elizabeth says there are two types of dysfunctional families. What are they?

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

4. What does Elizabeth's mother think Elizabeth should do to get better? What does Dr. Sterling suggest instead and why?

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

6. Describe the apartment that Elizabeth moves into after her stay in Dallas.

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

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

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

10. Why is Archer the perfect person for Elizabeth to visit after a breakup?

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