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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Esther always have with her as she walks around Belsize?
(a) A photograph
(b) A book
(c) Paper and a pencil
(d) A blanket

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

4. Who do Esther and Joan both get letters from?
(a) Jay Cee
(b) Mr. & Mrs. Willard
(c) Dr. Gordon
(d) Buddy

5. 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.

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

7. Why does Esther compare her photo with that of a dead girl published in the paper?
(a) To see if they wore their hair the same way.
(b) To see if they look enough alike for Esther to fake her death.
(c) To see if they looked enough alike to kill herself.
(d) To see if they might be long lost sisters.

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

9. Why does Buddy Willard visit Esther in the asylum?
(a) He wants to make sure that Esther is well enough to return to college.
(b) He wants to know the details of Joan's death.
(c) He wants to know if he drove she and Joan to insanity.
(d) He wants to ask her to marry him.

10. 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) She will feel like she has gone to sleep.
(c) All patients are scared to death the first time.
(d) It will hardly hurt.

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

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

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

14. Why does Dr. Nolan arrive early at Esther's room one day?
(a) To tell her she is improving
(b) To have a private therapy session
(c) To tell her her mother will be visiting later in the day
(d) To tell her she will be having a shock treatment

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther do that gets her transferred to another hospital?

2. What does Mrs. Mole do that makes the nurses put her in her room for dinner?

3. What does Joan find in a magazine that shocks Esther?

4. Why did Joan say she dated Buddy?

5. What trait does Dr. Nolan say women find attractive in each other?

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