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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. Why did Lori Winters have to call 911?

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

3. What did Lori Schiller lose at a card game?

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

5. What did Lori want to tell people were real (from Chapter 11, "Lori, Scarsdale, New York, May 1983 - August 1983")?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were the multiple diagnoses that the doctors at Lori's hospital gave her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Control was a main theme of the text. Find three examples where the theme of control was highlighted and explain why this example was centered around control.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What do you think the chapters that showed Lori's journaling and the hospital records added to the text? Do you think that these were necessary additions to the text? Why or why not?

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