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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. During their senior year at college, what did Lori Winters and other college friends believe was wrong with Lori?

2. How old was Steven Schiller when Lori was first committed?

3. What season did Lori Winters find especially "wonderful" in New York?

4. For Lori's family, what word represented "the five of us"?

5. What was the name of the Kool-Aid concoctions that the counselors created to drink at camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marvin want to insure that nothing of his daughter's break "came to light"?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Marvin tell Nancy that they needed to keep Lori's illness secret?

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

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

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

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

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 3

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

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