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GOODREADINGMAGAZINE.COM.AU GOOD READING MARCH 2014 74 QUIZ RATINGS RG March 2014 main 1. What is the title of the 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber in which the main character is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder? 2. What is the name of the rebellious inmate at a psychiatric hospital – played by Jack Nicholson in the movie adaptation – in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? 3. What condition does Esther Greenwood suffer from in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar? 4. Who is the sociopathic, cannibalistic serial killer in Thomas Harris’s novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs? 5. Which bestselling 1993 memoir by Amer ican author Susanna Kaysen about her two-year stint in a psychiatric hospital was made into a movie starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie? 6. Who does the psychotic mother of Augusten Burroughs send him to live with in the memoir of a bizarre childhood, Running with Scissors? 7. In Toni Jordan’s 2008 novel Addition, what is Grace Lisa Vandenburg obsessed with? 8. How old is Roseanne McNulty, the main character and 50-year resident of a psychiatric hospital, in Sebastian Barry’s 2008 novel The Secret Scripture? 9. Which mental illness has often been ascribed to the main character of Miguel Cervantes’ classic novel Don Quixote? 10. In Wally Lamb’s 1998 novel I Know This Much Is True, what does the paranoid schizophrenic Thomas Birdsey do to protest against war in the Middle East? They’re not usually the stuff of a light, escapist read, but books about mental illness can give us an insight into conditions that collectively will afflict almost half of us at some time in our lives. Try this quiz about the various psychoses, neuroses and other disorders of the mind that are endured by real and fictional people in books. MENTAL ILLNESS ANSWERS: 1. Sybil 2. Randle McMur phy 3. Clinical depression 4. Dr Hannibal Lecter 5. Girl, Interrupted 6. The mother’s psychiatr ist (Dr Finch) 7. Counting things 8. 100 9. Delusional disorder 10. He cuts off his own hand. ? ? ? ? 74_quiz_b.indd 74 6/02/14 9:17 PM
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