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paired stories, first series
8: mental illness
a: Susan Dime-Meenan
multiple choice exercise
key to this exercise
story: "SusanD"

Susan Dime-Meenan: multiple choice exercise

choose the best continuation according to the information in the story


(1) Because a doctor gave her the wrong medicine Susan thought she saw

(a) snakes under her bed

(b) little green men on the sidewalk

(c) bugs on the ceiling

(d) a ghost on the basement stairs



(2) Susan had several operations when she was a teenager because

(a) her doctors had discovered she had brain cancer

(b) her doctors had discovered she had a blood disease

(c) her doctors had discovered she had something wrong with her nervous system

(d) her doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with her



(3) Soon after Susan got married for the second time

(a) she was arrested for stealing clothes

(b) her husband left her for another woman

(c) she began to gain weight very quickly

(d) her husband had her locked up in mental hospital



(4) Susan made a lot of money with her

(a) court reporting business

(b) catering business

(c) website for manic-depressives

(d) newspaper reports of interesting trials