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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esther tell her mother after the treatment that makes her feel relieved?
(a) Dr. Gordon says she is cured.
(b) She has decided to not be depressed anymore.
(c) She feels much better after the treatment.
(d) She will not go back to Dr. Gordon again.

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

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

4. What does Esther wear to her exit hearing at the asylum?
(a) A black wool suit
(b) A red dress
(c) A purple dress and cameo brooch
(d) A red wool suit

5. How does Esther learn of the circumstances that led to her rescue from the basement?
(a) Joan tells her.
(b) Through a letter that her mother writes her.
(c) Dr. Nolan tells her.
(d) Through a news article Joan shows her.

6. Why did Joan say she dated Buddy?
(a) She found him attractive.
(b) She hoped to marry a doctor someday.
(c) She wanted to hide her homosexuality.
(d) She liked his parents.

7. How long has it been since Esther has slept?
(a) 14 days
(b) 21 days
(c) 30 days
(d) 7 days

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

9. Where will Esther live after leaving the asylum?
(a) With the Willards
(b) Her college dormitory
(c) The Amazon hotel
(d) Her mother's home

10. 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.

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

12. Why does Valerie have scars on her head?
(a) She was in an accident and had a head injury.
(b) She tried to kill herself.
(c) She had many shock treatments.
(d) She has had a lobotomy.

13. What concern about her future does Buddy express to Esther?
(a) How she'll be able to maintain her sanity in the
(b) What people will be willing to befriend her after being in an asylum
(c) What man will marry her after being in an asylum
(d) How she will be able to have a literary career when she can't write

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

15. What does Mrs. Tomollilo do that gets her placed in the psychiatric ward?
(a) She giggles uncontrollably all of the time.
(b) She sticks her tongue out at her mother-in-law.
(c) She tries to kill herself.
(d) She tries to kill her mother in law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Esther's next door neighbor in the hospital once her room is moved "up front"?

3. Why does Buddy Willard visit Esther in the asylum?

4. What happens to Esther after having sex with Irwin?

5. Who does Esther meet at the Widener Library?

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