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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 medication did doctors say that Lori needed to take for her schizophrenia?

2. What did Lori hear the first time the Voices spoke to her?

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

4. What did Lori compare her diagnosis to in Chapter 11, "Lori, Scarsdale, New York, May 1983 - August 1983"?

5. What card game did Lori Winters say was played on every street corner in New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Lori's Voices at the beginning of college.

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

8. According to Chapter 12, why did Lori state that she always listened to music?

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

10. What were the three things that Nancy Schiller did before she went to visit Lori in Payne Whitney?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both of Lori's brothers, Mark and Steven, notated issues with mental concerns of their own. What did this make you realize about the commonalities and concerns with schizophrenia? Where the concerns of Mark and Steven substantiated? Why?/Why not? Detail both siblings concerns and why they chose to shut Lori out.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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