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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Esther feel depressed when she returns to the Amazon?
(a) She feels abandoned by Doreen.
(b) She wishes she had gone to the magazine party instead of to Lenny's apartment.
(c) It is smoky in her room.
(d) It is utterly silent in her room.

2. What keeps Esther and Doreen from attending the magazine party?
(a) They do not want to spend time with Betsy and the other girls from the Amazon.
(b) They do not want to spend time with the magazine staff.
(c) They decide to go to a bar for drinks with Lenny and Frankie.
(d) Their cab is stuck in traffic and they do not arrive until the party is over.

3. What does Constantin ask Esther to do when they go to his apartment?
(a) Have sex with him
(b) Begin dating
(c) Listen to records
(d) Have a drink with him

4. What does Esther do when she returns to the Amazon the night that Marco attacks her?
(a) She cries hysterically.
(b) She throws all of her clothes off of the roof.
(c) She takes a hot bath to wash away the memory.
(d) She returns home.

5. Where is Marco from?
(a) Spain
(b) Italy
(c) Peru
(d) Venezuela

6. What marks the end of Esther's relationship with Eric?
(a) He graduates from college.
(b) He tells Buddy that he and Esther kissed.
(c) He writes her a letter saying he could fall in love with her.
(d) He writes her a letter proposing marriage.

7. Who is Philomena Guinea?
(a) A famous novelist who is having lunch with Jay Cee.
(b) The novelist whose scholarship Esther has at college.
(c) A lady at the Scholarships Office at Esther's college.
(d) The editor of Ladies' Day magazine.

8. What causes Esther's skiing accident?
(a) A man crosses her path.
(b) Buddy is talking to her as she is skiing.
(c) She loses one of her skis.
(d) She does not know how to ski.

9. Who calls Esther early the morning after she became sick with food poisoning?
(a) Constantin
(b) Her mother
(c) Doreen
(d) Jay Cee

10. What grade does Esther earn in her physics class?
(a) A
(b) C
(c) B
(d) F

11. What surprises Esther about the English program at her mother's college?
(a) There is no honors program in the English department.
(b) She has already met all of the requirements.
(c) There are more requirements than her own college.
(d) It is surprisingly difficult.

12. What does the Ladies' Day magazine staff send to the girls as gifts?
(a) Soup
(b) Cookbooks
(c) Books of short stories
(d) Copies of the magazine

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

14. What disheartens Esther the most about Jay Cee's suggestions for bolstering her career?
(a) Esther believed that her thesis on Finnegan's Wake was her ticket to getting a job as an editor.
(b) Esther cannot afford to take additional language courses.
(c) Esther has no room in her senior schedule to take language courses.
(d) Esther believed she was a strong writer, but Jay Cee tells her she is not.

15. Why doesn't Esther want her picture taken for the magazine?
(a) She doesn't like the way they styled her hair.
(b) She doesn't like the paper rose that Jay Cee gave her to hold.
(c) She feels insulted by Jay Cee.
(d) She is about to begin crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Esther's first reaction when Buddy proposes to her?

2. What does Esther do to help herself feel better after the botched night with Doreen and Lenny?

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

4. Why does Esther order vodka at the bar?

5. What surprises Esther the most about Marco?

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