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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther do to offend the driver of the first cab she rides in?
(a) She fails to tip him because she does not understand she needs to tip service people.
(b) She criticizes his erratic driving.
(c) She vomits in his cab.
(d) She tips him well below the standard rate.

2. What course keeps Esther from considering a major in English?
(a) Old English
(b) History of the English Language
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Eighteenth century literature

3. Why does Esther begin reading Finnegan's Wake?
(a) To begin writing her thesis
(b) To get ahead the following semester
(c) To fill in a gap in her coursework
(d) To help her sleep

4. What does Esther hear as she lays in bed on the first morning she is home?
(a) The squeak of carriage wheels
(b) Her mother practicing typing
(c) The phone ringing
(d) A car pulling out of a driveway

5. Why does Esther trade her robe to Betsy for a skirt and shirt?
(a) She threw all of her clothes of of the roof and has nothing to wear.
(b) She likes Betsy's clothes better than her own.
(c) She has always coveted Betsy's green skirt.
(d) She gave all of her clothes to Doreen and has nothing to wear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Esther's next door neighbor in the hospital once her room is moved "up front"?

2. Where do Buddy and Esther go after the Yale Junior Prom?

3. Why does Esther take her history book with her when she receives the phone call that Buddy is at her dorm?

4. What does Esther resolve to do during her summer at home?

5. Who calls Esther early the morning after she became sick with food poisoning?

(see the answer key)

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