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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. For how many years did Lori state her life had been non-existent?

2. Who did Nancy say blamed them self for Lori's problems?

3. What position did Lori Schiller have with the Miss Universe Pageant?

4. What kind of classes did Steven's father urge him to take during his senior year in high school?

5. Whose birthday party did Lori attend, begin to believe everyone in attendance hated her, and then drive four hours home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Steven's fears about Lori's commitment cause him to do?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What clues does the text provide to allow one to make genetic connections between Lori's illness and her family? Who admits that Lori's illness may have come from their side of the family? Why is this connection made? Do you believe that this is why Lori's parent acts differently than the other? Why?/Why not?

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'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?

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