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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, in Lori's family's private language, meant a short haircut?

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

3. Where did Lori spend the first semester of her junior year of college?

4. What city did Lori claim to be "so foreign, and far away"?

5. How much was the one-bedroom in New York that Lori and Lori wanted to rent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was Steven Schiller really afraid of what had happened to his sister?

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

6. What did Lori come to accept as a sign of fate that she should attend Tufts for college?

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

8. Why did Lori believe that camp was the "most wonderful place in the world"?

9. Why did Lori Schiller and Lori Winters believe that the McAlpin Hotel was the "ideal place for two recently graduated college girls"?

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

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

At many times throughout the text, Lori "finds" herself back in a hospital. Do you think that Lori forced her way back into hospitals for a reason? Do you think that, even though Lori hated the hospitals, the hospitals were the one place that she felt the safest? Support your answers textually.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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