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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 say madness is really like?
(a) A wild roller coaster with no end in sight.
(b) Pure dullness, tedium straight up.
(c) Gorgeous, celebral craziness.
(d) A long road to nowhere in particular.

2. How much time passes before Elizabeth and Rafe talk again?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two weeks.

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

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

5. What is the name of Samantha's ex-boyfriend?
(a) Avon.
(b) Manuel.
(c) Barnaby.
(d) Archer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Elizabeth take at night while in Harvard?

2. Where does Elizabeth travel to straight after breaking up with her boyfriend?

3. What does Elizabeth move to Texas to do?

4. What has really happened to Elizabeth?

5. Where in Texas does she move to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Manuel and Elizabeth finally get together?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Elizabeth's first conversation with Rafe on the phone. Why does she say she's calling him? Why do they continue talking?

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