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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Esther after having sex with Irwin?
(a) He treats her poorly and she leaves his apartment angry.
(b) She regrets having lost her virginity to him.
(c) She begins feeling like a grown woman.
(d) She begins hemorrhaging.

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

3. What treatment does Dr. Gordon suggest for Esther?
(a) Shock treatment
(b) Anti-depressants
(c) Admittance to an asylum
(d) Continued weekly appointments with him

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

5. What field does Joan tell Esther she plans on studying when she returns to college?
(a) Psychiatry
(b) Chemistry
(c) Religion
(d) Physics

6. What infuriates Esther in Dr. Gordon's office?
(a) His silver pencil
(b) The lighting
(c) The plants
(d) The photograph of his family

7. Where does Esther tell the sailor she is is from?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Boston
(c) Chicago
(d) New York City

8. What does Esther do to pay tribute to Joan?
(a) She gives the eulogy at her funeral.
(b) She visits her grave site.
(c) She writes a poem memorializing her.
(d) She attends her funeral.

9. How does Dr. Gordon respond to Esther's torn letter to Doreen?
(a) He is sympathetic to her concerns about not being able to write.
(b) He asks to speak to her mother.
(c) He diagnoses her as depressed.
(d) He changes the subject.

10. How does Esther learn of the circumstances that led to her rescue from the basement?
(a) Joan tells her.
(b) Through a news article Joan shows her.
(c) Dr. Nolan tells her.
(d) Through a letter that her mother writes her.

11. What does Esther tell her mother after the treatment that makes her feel relieved?
(a) She has decided to not be depressed anymore.
(b) Dr. Gordon says she is cured.
(c) She will not go back to Dr. Gordon again.
(d) She feels much better after the treatment.

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

13. Why does Dr. Nolan arrive early at Esther's room one day?
(a) To tell her her mother will be visiting later in the day
(b) To tell her she will be having a shock treatment
(c) To tell her she is improving
(d) To have a private therapy session

14. Who "rescues" Esther from the public hospital?
(a) Philomena Guinea
(b) Jay Cee
(c) Her mother
(d) Buddy Willard

15. Why did Joan say she dated Buddy?
(a) She hoped to marry a doctor someday.
(b) She liked his parents.
(c) She wanted to hide her homosexuality.
(d) She found him attractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther notice about the people outside of the hospital?

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

3. How does the shock treatment make Esther feel?

4. How long has it been since Esther has slept when she first visits Dr. Gordon?

5. Why does Esther visit the cemetery?

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