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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Buddy call Esther at college?
(a) He has received a scholarship and is excited.
(b) He wants to ask for her hand in marriage.
(c) He is concerned that he has given her TB.
(d) He has contracted TB and must immediately leave for treatment.

2. Why is Esther disturbed by Buddy's view of poetry?
(a) She believes that poetry is more important than cadavers.
(b) It demonstrates his ignorance.
(c) She is a literature major and a writer.
(d) It shows that he never read the poems she wrote for him.

3. What grade does Esther earn in her physics class?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) F

4. Why does Doreen vomit on the carpet of the hotel hallway?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) She is upset that Lenny dumped her.
(c) She has the flu.
(d) She has food poisoning.

5. How does Esther ultimately decide she will do to commit suicide?
(a) Take all of her sleeping pills
(b) Drown herself
(c) Hang herself
(d) Cut her wrists

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Buddy ask Esther whether she'd like to live in the city or the country?

2. For Esther the world is divided along the lines of---

3. Why is Esther surprised when Buddy calls her at college?

4. What keeps Esther from committing suicide with the cord from her mother's robe?

5. Who comes to rescue Esther when she passes out in the bathroom of the Amazon?

(see the answer key)

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