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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 was the thing that Lori needed to hear over, and over, from Marvin when she was released from the hospital?

2. What started happening, during the spring of 1984, that brought to light a strange pattern in Lori's life for her parents?

3. How old was Marvin turning when Lori stood up and thanked him for his support while she was in the hospital?

4. What would happen every time Mark came close to bringing Sally home to meet his family?

5. What did Lori come to realize that the Voices had behind them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lori's typical day at New York Hospital in late 1985.

2. What were a few of the things that Lori did, as stated in Chapter 20, when she began "hearing the call of cocaine again"?

3. How did Dr. Doller differ from all of Lori's other doctors?

4. What did Lori and Marvin do on the weekends to keep their "relations simple and on an even keel"?

5. Why did Marvin Schiller state that "all through the winter I loved hearing the phone ring"?

6. Why did Mark Schiller state that he enjoyed Tulane?

7. What did Lori do to get thrown out of Futura House?

8. What did Dr. Doller and Dr. Fischer explain to Lori about her Voices?

9. Why was Lori jealous of the voices that other patients heard?

10. What were the two choices that Lori was given regarding her stay at 3 South?

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

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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