1. What is the test and what does it symbolize?
2. What is the significance of the author telling about his different interviews?
3. Explain the simile, "A person's soul should be like an ocean, but a schizophrenic's soul is like a pool of rain in a parking lot." (41)
4. Why did the author get so emotional with the man he interviewed with the crystal? (41-42)
5. What is the significance of the slice of pizza lying upside down on the carpet? Why does the author refer to it a second time? (42-43)
6. Compare/ Contrast these two people interviewed: the man with the crystal and the woman with pizza on her carpet.
7. Why does the author start to doubt himself half way through his interviews? (41)
8. Analyze and explain why the author took the test himself.
9. Explain why he analyzed himself three different times with each time having a longer period of time since his wife left him.
10. What is the significance of the last line of the chapter? What does it tell you about the authors' mental state at that time?
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