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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had Esther visited her family doctor?
(a) She has developed laryngitis.
(b) She is plagued by anxiety.
(c) She needs a referral for a psychiatrist.
(d) She cannot read or sleep.

2. Where do Buddy and Esther go after the Yale Junior Prom?
(a) To a bar
(b) To Buddy's fraternity house
(c) Back to Esther's college
(d) To a hill behind the chemistry lab

3. Why does Esther begin reading Finnegan's Wake?
(a) To help her sleep
(b) To fill in a gap in her coursework
(c) To get ahead the following semester
(d) To begin writing her thesis

4. Why does Valerie have scars on her head?
(a) She has had a lobotomy.
(b) She tried to kill herself.
(c) She had many shock treatments.
(d) She was in an accident and had a head injury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther hear as she lays in bed on the first morning she is home?

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

3. Who is Esther's next door neighbor in the hospital once her room is moved "up front"?

4. What is keeping Esther from telling Buddy that she has no intention of marrying him?

5. How does Buddy characterize poetry?

(see the answer key)

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