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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. Where does Laura go to college?

2. Who spends several days reading Bapu's journals?

3. What was the prison Naomi is sent to nicknamed?

4. Where does Kaylah go to college?

5. What famous person is Laura related to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Laura's first doctors start her down the path of in Part IV?

2. What does Karthik eventually build a career around?

3. What does Naomi do on July 4, 2003?

4. How does Aviv describe Florida, Naomi's mother?

5. What does Naomi know about the circumstances of her own birth?

6. What do people eventually begin to think of Bapu in the last years of her life?

7. What does Laura do when she is 25?

8. What is Naomi Gaines looking for, according to Aviv, when the reader meets her?

9. What does Laura Delano think of herself when Aviv first introduces her in Part IV?

10. Why does Naomi run into trouble with employment after her release from prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As an adult, how does Aviv come to view her time in treatment for anorexia when she was a very young child? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Aviv convey the magnitude of Osheroff's lawsuit for the future of mental health treatment to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What particular social and cultural ills was Naomi concerned with most when she had her breakdown and jumped from the bridge in 2003? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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