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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whose visit to her hospital room angers Esther?
(a) Her mother's
(b) Buddy Willard's
(c) George Bakewell's
(d) Her uncle's

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

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

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

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

10. What is unusual about Miss Norris?
(a) She will not leave her room.
(b) She does not speak.
(c) She is not friendly to Esther.
(d) She wears a cameo brooch.

11. What infuriates Esther in Dr. Gordon's office?
(a) His silver pencil
(b) The photograph of his family
(c) The plants
(d) The lighting

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

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

14. Why does Esther's mother bring her roses?
(a) To cheer her up
(b) For her birthday
(c) For Valentine's day
(d) They are a gift from Buddy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Esther visit the cemetery?

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

3. Who is Joan having an affair with at the asylum?

4. Who "rescues" Esther from the public hospital?

5. How do the women in Belsize know they will be having shock treatments?

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