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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 Lori compare her diagnosis to in Chapter 11, "Lori, Scarsdale, New York, May 1983 - August 1983"?
2. What was the name of the Kool-Aid concoctions that the counselors created to drink at camp?
3. What did Lori claim, in Chapter 4,"Lori Winters, New York City, July 1981 - March 1982", was the only thing that her psychiatrist was doing for her?
4. What was Lori constantly afraid of given the Voices kept saying it would be her fate?
5. What did Lori Winters tell Marvin that Lori had tried to do when the police had arrived at their apartment?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the three things that Nancy Schiller did before she went to visit Lori in Payne Whitney?
2. What did Lori Winters, in Chapter 4, state was the reason that she called 911?
3. Why was Steven Schiller really afraid of what had happened to his sister?
4. At twenty-four, a year after being released from the hospital, what did Lori find worrisome?
5. What did Lori Winters, and some other friends of Lori Schiller's, believe was wrong with her during their senior year of college?
6. Why did Lori believe that camp was the "most wonderful place in the world"?
7. Why did the memory of the dog plague Lori?
8. Why was Steven Schiller angry that his parents had committed his sister, Lori?
9. What did Lori come to accept as a sign of fate that she should attend Tufts for college?
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
Describe Lori's need for cocaine. What did it do for her? Why did it seem to help her? How did it harm her?
Essay Topic 2
Lori had to overcome her Voices to get better. Track the specific things that Lori did to control her Voices. What did she have to do? What worked? What didn't? Why?
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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