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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther notice about the people outside of the hospital?
(a) They have blank looks on their faces.
(b) They look like they do not belong at the hospital.
(c) They all look sick.
(d) They are hardly moving.

2. What treasure does Esther take with her to solitary confinement?
(a) A mirror
(b) A ball of mercury
(c) A letter from Buddy
(d) A book of poetry

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

4. What concern about her future does Buddy express to Esther?
(a) How she will be able to have a literary career when she can't write
(b) What people will be willing to befriend her after being in an asylum
(c) What man will marry her after being in an asylum
(d) How she'll be able to maintain her sanity in the

5. Where does Esther wake up at the start of this chapter?
(a) In her college dorm room
(b) In her basement
(c) In her bedroom
(d) In the psychiatric ward

6. What led Joan to run away from home?
(a) Her breakup with Buddy
(b) A fight with her parents
(c) An article about Esther
(d) Sores on her feet

7. Whose visit to her hospital room angers Esther?
(a) Her mother's
(b) Buddy Willard's
(c) Her uncle's
(d) George Bakewell's

8. Who is Joan having an affair with at the asylum?
(a) Esther
(b) Dee Dee
(c) Valerie
(d) Buddy

9. Where will Esther live after leaving the asylum?
(a) With the Willards
(b) Her mother's home
(c) Her college dormitory
(d) The Amazon hotel

10. Why does Valerie have scars on her head?
(a) She had many shock treatments.
(b) She tried to kill herself.
(c) She has had a lobotomy.
(d) She was in an accident and had a head injury.

11. Why does Dr. Quinn visit Esther late one night?
(a) To ask for help finding Joan
(b) To reprimand her for going to Irwin's apartment
(c) To check on her after she hemorrhaged
(d) To have a private therapy session

12. Why does Dr. Nolan restrict Esther's visitors?
(a) Esther's mother requested that no one be able to see her.
(b) Dr. Nolan is concerned for Esther's safety.
(c) Dr. Nolan does not like Esther's mother.
(d) She believes the visitors set back Esther's progress.

13. What does Esther wear to her exit hearing at the asylum?
(a) A red wool suit
(b) A purple dress and cameo brooch
(c) A red dress
(d) A black wool suit

14. Why does Esther visit the cemetery?
(a) To visit her grandparents' graves
(b) To visit her father's grave
(c) To select a gravesite for her body
(d) To contemplate suicide

15. What trait does Dr. Nolan say women find attractive in each other?
(a) Compassion
(b) Beauty
(c) Intelligence
(d) Tenderness

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of doctor does Dr. Nolan refer Esther to?

2. Why does Dr. Nolan arrive early at Esther's room one day?

3. What happens to Esther after having sex with Irwin?

4. How does the shock treatment make Esther feel?

5. Where does Esther tell the sailor she is is from?

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