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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 one of Aviv's roommates at the hospital?
(a) Carrie.
(b) Riki.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Helen.

2. What does Aviv's mother propose to her at one point for a collaboration?
(a) That they move in together.
(b) That they sing together.
(c) That they write a book together.
(d) That they cook together.

3. What is anorexia often described as?
(a) A fabric disorder.
(b) An eating disorder.
(c) A frank disorder.
(d) An immune disorder.

4. Who is the most practical person in Aviv's family, according to her?
(a) Her stepmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

5. What does Aviv's mother think about her role in Aviv's anorexia?
(a) She herself is partly to blame.
(b) The culture is to blame.
(c) Aviv does not really suffer from the disorder.
(d) Aviv's father is to blame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do barbiturates do?

2. Who wrote the first extended report of patients responding to antidepressant medication?

3. Who was Aviv's first-grade friend?

4. Who does Ray move to Scarsdale with?

5. Who was Bhargavi most loyal to in the family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one major motivation of Aviv's to begin eating again?

2. What does Aviv think of Hava as a young child?

3. What kind of trouble did Ray find himself in at the end of his life?

4. What kind of relationship did Ray have with his own father?

5. Where does Ray first go for mental health treatment?

6. What illness is Bapu eventually diagnosed with?

7. When Bapu first arrived in Kilpauk Mental Hospital, what drug was often used to treat schizophrenia?

8. Why does Ray read the entire Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?

9. What disease does Aviv struggle with as a very young child?

10. Why does Ray sue the Lodge eventually?

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