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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 did Dr. Fischer and Dr. Doller say the Voices were a part of, when explaining them to Lori?
(a) A part of her.
(b) An imaginary symptom.
(c) A misunderstanding of her sickness.
(d) A relighting of her past.

2. What did Lori learn to do to subside the Voices?
(a) Ignore the voices.
(b) Let her own anger out.
(c) Stiffle her anger.
(d) Talk back to her Voices.

3. What had Mark done to Lori that made it impossible for him to believe that she was sick?
(a) Tried to make excuses for her illness.
(b) Put her on a pedestal for too long.
(c) Ignored her sickness.
(d) Forgot that people are vulnerable.

4. What was the thing that Lori needed to hear over, and over, from Marvin when she was released from the hospital?
(a) That he loved her.
(b) That the medication was working.
(c) That she would be okay.
(d) That she would never go back to the hospital.

5. Who did Lori say was going to be her protector during her time in the hospital in 1985?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The Voices.
(d) Her doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time did Lori go to the window to await her parents arrival every day?

2. Who did Lori say that she tried to find so that she could obtain some cocaine?

3. What did Lori say that she "mastered" in Chapter 24, "Lori, New York Hospital, White Plains, New York, January 1989"?

4. What month and year did Mark meet Sally?

5. How many beds were in the hospital that Lori began working at in the fall of 1984?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marvin Schiller state that "all through the winter I loved hearing the phone ring"?

2. What did Lori and Marvin do on the weekends to keep their "relations simple and on an even keel"?

3. What did "O.U." stand for and represent?

4. Why was Lori jealous of the voices that other patients heard?

5. Describe Lori's plans, and what she actually did, to commit suicide (at the end of Chapter 20).

6. Explain the the compartments of Lori's brain.

7. What did Marvin state that his life had "boiled down to" after Lori's release from the hospital?

8. Why did Marvin Schiller, in Chapter 13, state that Lori's job as a waitress was good for her?

9. Why did Mark Schiller keep breaking up with Sally every time a visit to his parent's home would grow close?

10. What did Mark admit to in Chapter 19 that his parents were unaware of?

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