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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Esther have Irwin drive her to?
(a) Dr. Nolan's apartment
(b) Joan's apartment
(c) The hospital
(d) The asylum

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

5. Who is Esther's doctor at the private hospital?
(a) Dr. Syphilis
(b) Dr. Gordon
(c) Dr. Nolan
(d) Buddy Willard

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

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

8. 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 ask her to marry him.
(d) He wants to know if he drove she and Joan to insanity.

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

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

11. 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) She drops the flower vases and spills the water.
(c) They do not like her rearranging their flowers.
(d) She does not deliver the correct bouquets.

12. Why does Dr. Nolan restrict Esther's visitors?
(a) Dr. Nolan does not like Esther's mother.
(b) Esther's mother requested that no one be able to see her.
(c) She believes the visitors set back Esther's progress.
(d) Dr. Nolan is concerned for Esther's safety.

13. What led Joan to run away from home?
(a) An article about Esther
(b) Sores on her feet
(c) Her breakup with Buddy
(d) A fight with her parents

14. Who is Joan planning on living with when she leaves the asylum?
(a) Nurse Kennedy
(b) Her old college roommate
(c) Esther
(d) Her parents

15. Who does Jody set Esther up on a blind date with?
(a) Cal
(b) Dr. Gordon
(c) Buddy
(d) Mark

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long has it been since Esther has slept when she first visits Dr. Gordon?

3. How does Esther learn of the circumstances that led to her rescue from the basement?

4. Which of the following is NOT a privilege given to residents of Belsize?

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

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