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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. After visiting Turners Falls, what was the name of the hall that Lori and Tara moved into at college?

2. Where was Lori's family moving to during the summer drive across country?

3. During the summer prior to Steven's senior year of high school, where did he work?

4. What did Nancy's parents do constantly when she was a child?

5. Who had Lori made plans with, as a child, to be their maid of honor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Lori believe that camp was the "most wonderful place in the world"?

3. In Chapter 11, why did Lori state that she hated the hospital?

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

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

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

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

8. What single event triggered the Voices when Lori was at camp?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At many points throughout the text, Lori admits to losing past ties with friends and her life prior to her illness. Do you think that Lori needed to move on past her past? Why? Was this necessary for her to become well? Explain using textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

Lori's illness changed dramatically when she began taking clozapine. Describe the changes that Lori went through while on clozapine. What did she struggle with initially? How did the drug come to help her in the end? How was it different from all other drugs that she had taken previously?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one activity that the staff taught Lori in order to "teach you [her] ways to feel the storm before it arrives.". Why do you believe this activity worked? Did not work? What was the importance of understanding the onslaught of an outburst? How did this help Lori?

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