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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Buddy tell Esther she should get used to seeing?
(a) Women giving birth
(b) Him naked
(c) Cadavers
(d) His dorm room

4. Why does Doreen vomit on the carpet of the hotel hallway?
(a) She has food poisoning.
(b) She has the flu.
(c) She is upset that Lenny dumped her.
(d) She is drunk.

5. What surprises Esther about Buddy's appearance when she first sees him at the sanatorium?
(a) He has cut his hair short.
(b) He has lost weight.
(c) He looks pale and sickly.
(d) He has gained weight.

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

7. What does Esther think caused her sickness?
(a) Chicken
(b) Dessert
(c) Crabmeat
(d) Caviar

8. What faux pas does Esther make with the bellman when she first arrives at the Amazon?
(a) She does not not tip him because she doesn't know she is supposed to.
(b) She ignores him because she is too busy looking out the window.
(c) She fails to thank him for carrying her bag to her room.
(d) She insults his uniform.

9. How does Esther feel when she hangs up the phone after talking with Buddy?
(a) angry
(b) frightened
(c) relieved
(d) elated

10. Why does Esther think that Mr. Willard is telling her that he and his wife had always wanted a daughter?
(a) She believes he is about to tell her that Mrs. Willard is pregnant.
(b) She thinks that Mr. Willard wants to make her feel good about herself.
(c) She knows that Buddy is going to propose marriage to her.
(d) She thinks that the Willards want to adopt her.

11. Why does Esther leave the movie premiere?
(a) She does not like the movie.
(b) She is tired and wants to go to sleep.
(c) She feels nauseous.
(d) She wants to see Doreen as soon as she comes back from Coney Island.

12. Why can't Marco marry the woman he is in love with?
(a) She is in love with someone else.
(b) Her parents will not allow them to be married.
(c) She is going to be a nun
(d) She does not love him.

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

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

15. Why does Buddy ask Esther whether she'd like to live in the city or the country?
(a) To decide where to take her on vacation
(b) To determine where they should buy their first house
(c) To determine if she is neurotic
(d) To see if they are compatible

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait makes Esther admire Jay Cee?

2. What is Esther's opinion of the movie she and the other girls are invited to see?

3. What does Esther label Marco?

4. Doreen tells Lenny she will go to his apartment only if---

5. Why doesn't Esther want her picture taken for the magazine?

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