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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Esther know Buddy?
(a) They met at a party.
(b) They attend the same college.
(c) They attended the same boarding school.
(d) Their mothers are friends and they attend the same church.

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

3. Why is Esther disturbed by Buddy's view of poetry?
(a) She is a literature major and a writer.
(b) It demonstrates his ignorance.
(c) She believes that poetry is more important than cadavers.
(d) It shows that he never read the poems she wrote for him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Esther resolve to do during her summer at home?

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

4. What surprises Esther about the English program at her mother's college?

5. How often does Buddy commit to seeing Esther once they begin dating?

(see the answer key)

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