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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complaint do all of the patients at the hospital have of Esther's volunteer work?
(a) She does not deliver the correct bouquets.
(b) She drops the flower vases and spills the water.
(c) They do not like her rearranging their flowers.
(d) They do not like her stand offish attitude.

2. How does Esther ultimately decide she will do to commit suicide?
(a) Hang herself
(b) Take all of her sleeping pills
(c) Drown herself
(d) Cut her wrists

3. Which of the following is NOT a privilege given to residents of Belsize?
(a) town visits
(b) shopping
(c) visits home
(d) walks

4. What field does Joan tell Esther she plans on studying when she returns to college?
(a) Religion
(b) Psychiatry
(c) Physics
(d) Chemistry

5. What does the nurse tell Esther to help her feel more relaxed during her first shock treatment?
(a) Few patients have negative side effects.
(b) All patients are scared to death the first time.
(c) She will feel like she has gone to sleep.
(d) It will hardly hurt.

6. What does Esther notice about the people outside of the hospital?
(a) They all look sick.
(b) They have blank looks on their faces.
(c) They look like they do not belong at the hospital.
(d) They are hardly moving.

7. Why does Esther contact Irwin?
(a) To chastise him for injuring her
(b) To set up another date
(c) To demand he pays her medical bills
(d) To tell him she is leaving the asylum

8. Other than tabloid magazines, what type of books is Esther able to read?
(a) A book of short stories
(b) Poetry
(c) James Joyce's novels
(d) Abnormal psychology texts

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

10. What led Joan to run away from home?
(a) An article about Esther
(b) Sores on her feet
(c) A fight with her parents
(d) Her breakup with Buddy

11. Who is Joan planning on living with when she leaves the asylum?
(a) Her old college roommate
(b) Esther
(c) Her parents
(d) Nurse Kennedy

12. Why does Esther dislike Dr. Gordon?
(a) He gave her painful shock treatments.
(b) She didn't feel like he listened to her during their sessions.
(c) He failed to cure her depression.
(d) He had her committed to a public hospital.

13. Why is Esther surprised when the nurse tells her she is moving to Belsize?
(a) She does not feel well enough to move up.
(b) She never thought she'd make it to Belsize.
(c) Dr. Nolan had told her it would be some time before she was moved up.
(d) She is angry that they are moving her down.

14. How does Dr. Gordon respond to Esther's torn letter to Doreen?
(a) He diagnoses her as depressed.
(b) He asks to speak to her mother.
(c) He is sympathetic to her concerns about not being able to write.
(d) He changes the subject.

15. What happens to Esther after having sex with Irwin?
(a) She begins feeling like a grown woman.
(b) She regrets having lost her virginity to him.
(c) He treats her poorly and she leaves his apartment angry.
(d) She begins hemorrhaging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treatment does Dr. Gordon suggest for Esther?

2. Where does Esther wake up at the start of this chapter?

3. What does Esther do to pay tribute to Joan?

4. What does Mrs. Tomollilo do that gets her placed in the psychiatric ward?

5. Why doesn't Esther wash her clothes or bathe?

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