The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Lori Schiller
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Lori Schiller
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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. When Lori described how much medication she took, what did she state it was difficult for her to do?

2. Besides the word "psychotic", what other word enraged Lori?

3. What "old wound" did Lori's admittance into the hospital reopen for Steven Schiller?

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

5. What city did Lori claim to be "so foreign, and far away"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lori do on a whim while in college?

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

3. What did Lori Winters, and some other friends of Lori Schiller's, believe was wrong with her during their senior year of college?

4. When Lori returned home in 1983, why did she state that dinners around the family table had changed?

5. Why did Lori Schiller and Lori Winters believe that the McAlpin Hotel was the "ideal place for two recently graduated college girls"?

6. What did Lori come to accept as a sign of fate that she should attend Tufts for college?

7. What were the multiple diagnoses that the doctors at Lori's hospital gave her?

8. Why did the memory of the dog plague Lori?

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

10. Describe the events that changed Lori's life forever in August of 1976.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Lori's need for cocaine. What did it do for her? Why did it seem to help her? How did it harm her?

Essay Topic 2

Lori's Voices are personified given the capitalization of the "V". Why do you believe that Lori personified her Voices? What did this do for the Voices? What did it do for Lori?

Essay Topic 3

Lori is ruled by her behaviors. Throughout the text, Lori's behaviors are detailed. Choose three of the most pertinent behaviors and describe 1) where the behavior stemmed from; 2) what preceded the behavior; 3) how Lori felt about the behavior; and 4) the consequence of the behavior.

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