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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther decide about her relationship with Constantin during their dinner date?
(a) She will allow him to seduce her.
(b) She will leave Buddy for Constantin.
(c) She would like to be friends, but not lovers with Constantin.
(d) She has no interest in seeing Constantin again.

2. What does Constantin say is the most difficult aspect of simultaneous translation?
(a) The verb conjugations
(b) Understanding the ambassadors' accents
(c) The idioms
(d) The speed at which the ambassadors speak

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

4. Why does Esther compare her photo with that of a dead girl published in the paper?
(a) To see if they look enough alike for Esther to fake her death.
(b) To see if they might be long lost sisters.
(c) To see if they wore their hair the same way.
(d) To see if they looked enough alike to kill herself.

5. For Esther the world is divided along the lines of---
(a) race
(b) gender
(c) political beliefs
(d) virginity

Short Answer Questions

1. What course does Esther convince her college dean to exempt her from taking?

2. What does Esther do to let Constantin know she is interested in having sex with him?

3. What does Esther liken the potential choices she has in life to?

4. What does Buddy tell Esther she will want to abandon once she has children?

5. What grade does Esther earn in her physics class?

(see the answer key)

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