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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long has it been since Esther has slept?
(a) 30 days
(b) 14 days
(c) 7 days
(d) 21 days
2. How does Dr. Gordon respond to Esther's torn letter to Doreen?
(a) He is sympathetic to her concerns about not being able to write.
(b) He changes the subject.
(c) He diagnoses her as depressed.
(d) He asks to speak to her mother.
3. Whose visit to her hospital room angers Esther?
(a) Her mother's
(b) George Bakewell's
(c) Buddy Willard's
(d) Her uncle's
4. Where does Esther tell the sailor she is is from?
(a) New York City
(b) San Francisco
(c) Boston
(d) Chicago
5. According to Dr. Nolan, how often will Esther need to have shock treatments?
(a) 3 times a week
(b) 3 times a month
(c) 2 times a week
(d) Every other week
6. What does Esther always have with her as she walks around Belsize?
(a) A blanket
(b) A photograph
(c) A book
(d) Paper and a pencil
7. What does Esther tell her mother after the treatment that makes her feel relieved?
(a) She feels much better after the treatment.
(b) She has decided to not be depressed anymore.
(c) Dr. Gordon says she is cured.
(d) She will not go back to Dr. Gordon again.
8. What treatment does Dr. Gordon suggest for Esther?
(a) Shock treatment
(b) Admittance to an asylum
(c) Anti-depressants
(d) Continued weekly appointments with him
9. Where does Esther wake up at the start of this chapter?
(a) In her basement
(b) In her bedroom
(c) In her college dorm room
(d) In the psychiatric ward
10. What is unusual about Miss Norris?
(a) She does not speak.
(b) She will not leave her room.
(c) She wears a cameo brooch.
(d) She is not friendly to Esther.
11. Why does Esther visit the cemetery?
(a) To visit her father's grave
(b) To visit her grandparents' graves
(c) To select a gravesite for her body
(d) To contemplate suicide
12. Who is Joan having an affair with at the asylum?
(a) Esther
(b) Buddy
(c) Dee Dee
(d) Valerie
13. 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 had her committed to a public hospital.
(d) He failed to cure her depression.
14. Where does Esther have Irwin drive her to?
(a) Dr. Nolan's apartment
(b) The hospital
(c) The asylum
(d) Joan's apartment
15. Why did Joan say she dated Buddy?
(a) She liked his parents.
(b) She wanted to hide her homosexuality.
(c) She hoped to marry a doctor someday.
(d) She found him attractive.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who "rescues" Esther from the public hospital?
2. What does Esther wear to her exit hearing at the asylum?
3. What concern about her future does Buddy express to Esther?
4. Who is Esther's doctor at the private hospital?
5. Which of the following is NOT a privilege given to residents of Belsize?
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