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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther do as Lenny and Doreen dance?
(a) She sits on the bear skin rug and drinks.
(b) She falls asleep on Lenny's bed.
(c) She leaves Lenny's apartment.
(d) She joins them and dances.

2. How does Buddy characterize poetry?
(a) He calls them worthless pieces of junk.
(b) He calls poems pieces of dust.
(c) He likens them to the cadavers he dissects in medical school.
(d) He sees them as capturing all the beauty there is in the world.

3. Why doesn't Esther attend the fur show?
(a) She is attending the Ladies' Day luncheon when the fur show is going on.
(b) Jay Cee asks her to come into the office.
(c) Esther and Doreen go to Coney Island with Lenny.
(d) She has no interest in furs.

4. Why does Esther order vodka at the bar?
(a) She thinks it will convince Lenny and Frankie that she is older than she is.
(b) She wants to get drunk as quickly as possible.
(c) She saw it in an ad and was attracted to its purity.
(d) It is her favorite drink.

5. What course does Esther convince her college dean to exempt her from taking?
(a) Chemistry
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Botany
(d) Physics

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Esther and Doreen from attending the magazine party?

2. Which of the following best describes Lenny and Doreen's dancing?

3. Why is Esther afraid of taking chemistry?

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

5. What does the Ladies' Day magazine staff send to the girls as gifts?

(see the answer key)

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