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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mrs. Bannister discover about Esther one evening?
(a) She has thrown out the roses from her mother.
(b) She has had a reaction to the insulin injections.
(c) She is sleeping too much.
(d) She is not responding to the insulin injections.

4. 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.

5. Why does Esther visit the cemetery?
(a) To contemplate suicide
(b) To select a gravesite for her body
(c) To visit her grandparents' graves
(d) To visit her father's grave

6. How does the shock treatment make Esther feel?
(a) Calm
(b) Sleepy
(c) Angry
(d) Terrible

7. Why does Dr. Quinn visit Esther late one night?
(a) To have a private therapy session
(b) To check on her after she hemorrhaged
(c) To ask for help finding Joan
(d) To reprimand her for going to Irwin's apartment

8. Who is Joan having an affair with at the asylum?
(a) Buddy
(b) Valerie
(c) Dee Dee
(d) Esther

9. Why doesn't Esther wash her clothes or bathe?
(a) She wants to preserve the memory of her time in NYC.
(b) It irritates her mother.
(c) It seems silly to her.
(d) She is too tired because she has not slept in days.

10. What sort of doctor does Dr. Nolan refer Esther to?
(a) A psychiatrist
(b) An obstetrician
(c) A gynecologist
(d) A orthopedist

11. How do the women in Belsize know they will be having shock treatments?
(a) They receive a note the night before.
(b) Their psychiatrists tell them.
(c) They are woken up early for treatments.
(d) Their breakfast tray is not delivered.

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

13. Who is Esther's next door neighbor in the hospital once her room is moved "up front"?
(a) Joan
(b) Valerie
(c) Miss Norris
(d) Dr. Nolan

14. What keeps Esther from committing suicide with the cord from her mother's robe?
(a) Her mother comes home and finds her.
(b) She decides it is much nobler to die by cutting her wrists.
(c) Her hands release the cord before she loses consciousness.
(d) The cord breaks as she is tying it in a noose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Valerie have scars on her head?

2. What does the nurse tell Esther to help her feel more relaxed during her first shock treatment?

3. Why is Esther surprised when the nurse tells her she is moving to Belsize?

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

5. Why does Esther dislike Dr. Gordon?

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