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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dr. Quinn visit Esther late one night?
(a) To check on her after she hemorrhaged
(b) To ask for help finding Joan
(c) To reprimand her for going to Irwin's apartment
(d) To have a private therapy session

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

3. What does Mrs. Tomollilo do that gets her placed in the psychiatric ward?
(a) She sticks her tongue out at her mother-in-law.
(b) She tries to kill herself.
(c) She tries to kill her mother in law.
(d) She giggles uncontrollably all of the time.

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

5. What does Mrs. Bannister discover about Esther one evening?
(a) She has had a reaction to the insulin injections.
(b) She has thrown out the roses from her mother.
(c) She is sleeping too much.
(d) She is not responding to the insulin injections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dr. Nolan restrict Esther's visitors?

2. Why doesn't Esther wash her clothes or bathe?

3. Who "rescues" Esther from the public hospital?

4. What does Mrs. Mole do that makes the nurses put her in her room for dinner?

5. Who is Esther's doctor at the private hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What keeps Esther from drowning herself at the beach?

2. How does the private hospital staff compare to those at the public hospital?

3. Describe Esther's feelings about the women living in Belsize

4. Describe the scene at the cemetery.

5. What do the voices in Esther's head tell her as she sits in the park contemplating suicide?

6. Characterize Esther's behavior in the psychiatric wards of the hospitals

7. How is Esther's shock treatment experience at the private hospital different than the one she had with Dr. Gordon?

8. What thoughts consume Esther after finding out she must have shock treatments?

9. What does Dr. Nolan tell Esther about shock treatments in this chapter?

10. What news does Esther expect Dr. Nolan to give her after her insulin reaction? What news does she actually give her?

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