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Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

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1. What does the doctor who sends her to McLean Hospital notice on Kaysen's face?

(A) A smile

(B) A pimple

(D) Glasses

2. What does Polly scream about when she realizes the extent of her burns?

(A) Her hair

(B) Her hands

(D) Her arms

3. How does Kaysen try to kill herself?

(A) Hanging

(B) A shotgun

(D) Fifty aspirin

4. What does Lisa say about life outside the hospital?

(A) “There are so many things to do”

(B) “I wish I never had to come back”

(D) “There's nobody to take care of you out there”

5. What does Jim Watson offer to do for Kaysen?

(A) Take her to England

(B) Pass a message to her boyfriend

(D) Pay for lunch

6. What are the names of Wade's father's dangerous friends?

(A) Woodward and Bernstein

(B) Liddy and Hunt

(D) Dwight and Taupin

7. What kind of medication does Daisy repeatedly demand?

(A) Thorazine

(B) Sleeping pills

(D) Laxatives

8. How long does Kaysen believe it took the doctor to diagnose her?

(A) An hour

(B) Ninety minutes

(D) A long weekend

9. Where is the only place a patient can be alone on the hospital ward?

(A) The TV lounge

(B) The seclusion room

(D) The nurses' station

10. What interrupts the girls every five, fifteen, and thirty minutes?

(A) The local news

(B) Lisa's outbursts

(D) Announcements over the loudspeaker

11. Which of the following are the girls not allowed to have on the ward?

(A) Belts

(B) Earrings

(D) All of the above

12. What is Lisa's diagnosis?

(A) Sociopathy

(B) Borderline personality disorder

(D) Multiple personality disorder

13. Kaysen believes that mental illness can be divided into which two kinds?

(A) Good and bad

(B) Hard and soft

(D) Near and far

14. Why does Lisa throw a tantrum to have her window opened?

(A) To cool down

(B) She has no arms

(D) To pass the time

15. What makes Dr. Wick most uncomfortable?

(A) Discussion of sexuality

(B) A messy appearance

(D) Arriving without an appointment

16. Which two major figures were assassinated in 1968?

(A) Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten

(B) Franz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip

(D) Sirhan Sirhan and Squeaky Fromme

17. Whom do the girls visit on the maximum-security ward?

(A) Wade

(B) Lisa Cody

(D) Alice Calais

18. What drug do the nurses often give patients to calm them down?

(A) Thalidomide

(B) Thorazine

(D) Triazolam

19. What is Kaysen scared of losing at the dentist?

(A) Molars

(B) Wallet

(D) Perspective

20. Who does Kaysen run into years after she leaves the hospital?

(A) Valerie

(B) Lisa

(D) Polly

21. What is Kaysen's primary complaint at her typing job?

(A) She has to smoke in the bathroom

(B) The men can eat at their desks

(D) She has to share an office

22. In Kaysen's opinion, what is a sign that a mental patient may be incurable?

(A) No desire to be cured

(B) Conspiracy theories

(D) Constant craving for pie

23. What is Kaysen's diagnosis?

(A) Borderline personality disorder

(B) Multiple personality disorder

(D) General anxiety disorder

24. Who is most commonly diagnosed with Kaysen's disorder?

(A) Men

(B) Children

(D) Women

25. Where does the title Girl, Interrupted come from?

(A) Angelina Jolie

(B) A Vermeer painting

(D) France

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