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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 did Lori place on the back wall of a bookstore that she had visited with her father?

2. What medication did doctors say that Lori needed to take for her schizophrenia?

3. Why did Lori Winters have to call 911?

4. What month was it at the opening of the book?

5. What did Lori Winters tell Marvin that Lori had tried to do when the police had arrived at their apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "sales pitch" did Nancy Schiller believe would be the hardest one she ever had to make?

2. Why did Lori feel special (as she described in Chapter 2)?

3. What did Marvin Schiller learn from the late night phone call, in March of 1982, from Lori Winters?

4. Why was Steven Schiller angry that his parents had committed his sister, Lori?

5. In Chapter 11, what were the two reasons that Lori was glad to be home?

6. What were the three things that Nancy Schiller did before she went to visit Lori in Payne Whitney?

7. Why did Lori WInters stated that at one point she began to think of getting married even though she did not love the man she was dating?

8. Why did Lori state that for a long time, during high school, "relief came more than torment"?

9. What two movies did Lori compare herself to when she came to believe that she was possessed?

10. While at college, why did Lori state that she began to grow "increasingly tense and nervous"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the times that Lori exploded at her parents. Why do you believe she did this? How did it help her in her illness? How did it harm her in her illness? Based upon the text, why do you think that Lori's outbursts may have been a step in the right direction towards controlling her illness? Or do you disagree? Why? Support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The Quiet Room (the room itself) was a necessary part of Lori's recovery. Describe what the Quiet Room was to Lori. What did it begin as for her? How did she force a change in the Quiet Room? What did the Quiet Room become for her?

Essay Topic 3

Lori is able to write about her illness in a very honest and explicit way. Explain the importance of this format for both Lori and the reader. Why is Lori's honesty important for her? Why is it important for the reader? What does this honesty do for the text itself? What may it do for those suffering from schizophrenia?

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