The Bell Jar Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Bell Jar Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther label Marco?
(a) a woman-hater
(b) a Latin lover
(c) a snake
(d) a playing card

2. What does Esther liken the potential choices she has in life to?
(a) A racehorse
(b) Cooking
(c) The UN
(d) A fig tree

3. What faux pas does Esther make with the bellman when she first arrives at the Amazon?
(a) She insults his uniform.
(b) She ignores him because she is too busy looking out the window.
(c) She fails to thank him for carrying her bag to her room.
(d) She does not not tip him because she doesn't know she is supposed to.

4. What is Esther's response to Buddy's marriage proposal?
(a) She tells him she will never get married.
(b) She rejects his proposal because she believes he is a hypocrite.
(c) She tells him she needs to think about it before answering.
(d) She accepts his proposal and agrees to marry him.

5. What does Esther think may have caused Buddy's TB?
(a) His dishonesty
(b) His insensitivity to her feelings
(c) His compromised immune system
(d) His unwillingness to wear gloves when examining patients

6. Why doesn't Esther attend the fur show?
(a) She has no interest in furs.
(b) She is attending the Ladies' Day luncheon when the fur show is going on.
(c) Esther and Doreen go to Coney Island with Lenny.
(d) Jay Cee asks her to come into the office.

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

8. Why has a medical student been assigned to deliver the woman's baby on the day Esther and Buddy visit the hospital?
(a) Delivering a baby is a medical school requirement.
(b) Delivering eight babies is a medical school requirement.
(c) The doctor assigned to the woman is attending to another birth.
(d) The doctor on call is stuck in traffic.

9. Why does Buddy ask Esther whether she'd like to live in the city or the country?
(a) To see if they are compatible
(b) To decide where to take her on vacation
(c) To determine where they should buy their first house
(d) To determine if she is neurotic

10. Who calls Esther early the morning after she became sick with food poisoning?
(a) Her mother
(b) Constantin
(c) Jay Cee
(d) Doreen

11. Where do Buddy and Esther go after the Yale Junior Prom?
(a) To a hill behind the chemistry lab
(b) Back to Esther's college
(c) To Buddy's fraternity house
(d) To a bar

12. How does Esther feel about the cadavers that Buddy shows her?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is horrified.
(c) She is intrigued.
(d) She is ambivalent.

13. What marks the end of Esther's relationship with Eric?
(a) He writes her a letter saying he could fall in love with her.
(b) He graduates from college.
(c) He tells Buddy that he and Esther kissed.
(d) He writes her a letter proposing marriage.

14. What does Marco remind Esther of?
(a) A tango dancer
(b) A snake in the zoo
(c) A movie star
(d) A diamond

15. How does Esther know Buddy?
(a) Their mothers are friends and they attend the same church.
(b) They met at a party.
(c) They attend the same college.
(d) They attended the same boarding school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Esther get from Lenny's apartment to the Amazon?

2. How many children does Dodo Conway have?

3. Why is Esther living in New York City in the summer of 1953?

4. What keeps Esther from losing her virginity to Constantin?

5. Who is Esther "cursed" to have had to eat breakfast with in the hotel cafeteria?

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