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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Esther's room full of smoke when she returns home from Lenny's apartment?
(a) There is a fire in Esther's room.
(b) Doreen left a cigarette burning in an ashtray.
(c) Doreen had been smoking before they left and had failed to open the window.
(d) The smoke materialized out of nowhere.

2. What course does Esther convince her college dean to exempt her from taking?
(a) Botany
(b) Physics
(c) Chemistry
(d) Shakespeare

3. What does Esther do while Mr. Manzi is lecturing in chemistry class?
(a) She daydreams.
(b) She completes her Shakespeare class assignments.
(c) She writes down the formulas he writes on the board.
(d) She pretends to be writing down the formulas he writes on the board.

4. What did Esther do the first time she saw a finger bowl?
(a) She asked her hostess what it was for.
(b) She dipped her fingers in it to clean them.
(c) She panicked not knowing what to do with it.
(d) She ate the contents, thinking it was an exotic soup.

5. What does Esther think caused her sickness?
(a) Dessert
(b) Caviar
(c) Chicken
(d) Crabmeat

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther do to offend the driver of the first cab she rides in?

2. What does Jay Cee give Esther as she leaves for her lunch date with the two authors?

3. Who is Philomena Guinea?

4. Why is Esther disturbed by Buddy's view of poetry?

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

(see the answer key)

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