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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elizabeth's diagnosis?

2. People taking MAOIs cannot eat which of the following foods?

3. What is the only way Elizabeth sleeps after leaving Rafe each weekend?

4. Who takes care of Elizabeth after Rafe breaks up with her?

5. What has clearly been a failure for Dr. Sterling?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Elizabeth's mom tell her that makes her disease become a reality to her?

3. How do Manuel and Elizabeth finally get together?

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

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

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

7. What does Barnaby expect because he shows her around town and picks her up from the airport?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elizabeth attributes the fact that she is alive thanks to Dr. Sterling's determination and dedication of allowing her to stay in the Stillman Infirmary rather than be fully committed at the McLean Institution. What does Dr. Sterling do to help Elizabeth throughout her recovery process? Why does Elizabeth believe staying at Stillman helped to save her life?

Essay Topic 2

Elizabeth begins to take Prozac but has a great deal of trouble with it at first. Why is this and how does having enough energy relate to her problems at this time?

Essay Topic 3

Elizabeth realizes she has fallen in love with her depression. Explain this statement, including why she needs her depression so much at this point in her life.

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