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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the only girl working at the magazine who does not get sick?
(a) Emily Ann
(b) Betsy
(c) Esther
(d) Doreen

3. Why is Esther's room full of smoke when she returns home from Lenny's apartment?
(a) Doreen had been smoking before they left and had failed to open the window.
(b) The smoke materialized out of nowhere.
(c) Doreen left a cigarette burning in an ashtray.
(d) There is a fire in Esther's room.

4. What is Esther's first reaction when Buddy proposes to her?
(a) She feels nauseous.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She is delighted.
(d) She feels like laughing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Esther say she would never marry Buddy Willard?

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

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

4. At what age does Esther say she stopped being "purely happy"?

5. What does Marco remind Esther of?

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