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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 Marvin Schiller refuse to believe when Lori Winters called him late one night in March of 1982?

2. What, in Lori's family's private language, meant a short haircut?

3. What did Lori look at every day as she awaited for her freedom from the hospital in 1983?

4. When Steven was eleven what did he want to be (as noted in Chapter 7, "Steven Schiller, Scarsdale, New York, July 1982")?

5. How many years after her terrifying summer at camp did Lori come to have a job, car, and apartment of her own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At twenty-four, a year after being released from the hospital, what did Lori find worrisome?

6. What did Lori Winters, in Chapter 4, state was the reason that she called 911?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the text, Lori details many of the jobs that she held. Choose the job that you believe to be the most helpful for Lori. Why do you believe this? What about the job helped Lori?

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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