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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Doreen avoid getting food poisoning?
(a) She does not attend the luncheon because she is at Coney Island with Lenny.
(b) She doesn't eat the food because she is trying to stay thin for Lenny.
(c) She does not attend the luncheon because she is at the office working with Jay Cee.
(d) She only eats dessert.

3. Why does Esther take her history book with her when she receives the phone call that Buddy is at her dorm?
(a) She plans to stop by the library after talking with Buddy.
(b) She does not know who is there to visit and plans to read her history book if he is boring.
(c) She wants Buddy to see that she is a studious person.
(d) She does not know who is there to visit and wants to be able to go to the library if the boy is horrific.

4. What is keeping Esther from telling Buddy that she has no intention of marrying him?
(a) He is attending medical school and she does not want to distract him.
(b) Her commitment to the magazine
(c) Fear of his mother's response
(d) His illness

5. What national event is Esther concerned with as the book opens?
(a) The trial of the Rosenbergs
(b) The bombing of Hiroshima
(c) The assassination of John F. Kennedy
(d) The execution of the Rosenbergs

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

7. What surprises Esther about Buddy's appearance when she first sees him at the sanatorium?
(a) He has lost weight.
(b) He has gained weight.
(c) He has cut his hair short.
(d) He looks pale and sickly.

8. Who is Esther "cursed" to have had to eat breakfast with in the hotel cafeteria?
(a) Doreen
(b) Jay Cee
(c) Betsy
(d) Hilda

9. 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

10. Who is missing from the Ladies' Day luncheon?
(a) Hilda
(b) Betsy
(c) Doreen
(d) Esther

11. When does Esther say she found out Buddy was a hypocrite?
(a) The day she found out he had TB.
(b) The day they saw a baby born.
(c) When he asks her to Junior Prom.
(d) The moment he kissed her after the Junior Prom.

12. Which of the following best describes Lenny and Doreen's dancing?
(a) aggressive
(b) elegant
(c) furious
(d) graceful

13. What keeps Esther and Doreen from attending the magazine party?
(a) They do not want to spend time with Betsy and the other girls from the Amazon.
(b) Their cab is stuck in traffic and they do not arrive until the party is over.
(c) They do not want to spend time with the magazine staff.
(d) They decide to go to a bar for drinks with Lenny and Frankie.

14. What trait does Buddy have that Esther thinks would make him a good teacher?
(a) He is always trying to explain things to Esther.
(b) He is very knowledgeable about biology.
(c) He has a keen interest in learning.
(d) His father was a teacher.

15. How many children does Dodo Conway have?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 12
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual gift does Buddy give Esther when she arrives in his room?

2. Who is Philomena Guinea?

3. What does Lenny's apartment look like to Esther?

4. How does Ladies' Day determine what causes the girls' sickness?

5. Why does Esther resolve to "ditch Buddy Willard for once and for all"?

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