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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Esther know Buddy?
(a) They attend the same college.
(b) Their mothers are friends and they attend the same church.
(c) They met at a party.
(d) They attended the same boarding school.

2. What does Esther liken the potential choices she has in life to?
(a) Cooking
(b) The UN
(c) A fig tree
(d) A racehorse

3. What disheartens Esther the most about Jay Cee's suggestions for bolstering her career?
(a) Esther has no room in her senior schedule to take language courses.
(b) Esther believed that her thesis on Finnegan's Wake was her ticket to getting a job as an editor.
(c) Esther cannot afford to take additional language courses.
(d) Esther believed she was a strong writer, but Jay Cee tells her she is not.

4. Why does Esther feel depressed when she returns to the Amazon?
(a) She wishes she had gone to the magazine party instead of to Lenny's apartment.
(b) It is smoky in her room.
(c) It is utterly silent in her room.
(d) She feels abandoned by Doreen.

5. What causes Esther's skiing accident?
(a) She loses one of her skis.
(b) A man crosses her path.
(c) She does not know how to ski.
(d) Buddy is talking to her as she is skiing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constantin ask Esther to do when they go to his apartment?

2. Who calls Esther early the morning after she became sick with food poisoning?

3. Why won't Esther let Doreen come into her room when she returns from Lenny's?

4. Why does Esther hope she will be paired up with Lenny instead of Frankie?

5. Why had Esther visited her family doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esther decide to take a bath when she returns to her hotel?

2. What is Esther's standing joke with her grandfather about caviar?

3. What news does Mrs. Greenwood deliver to Esther when she picks her up from the train station? How does Esther react?

4. Describe the story that Esther reads in the short story book from the Ladies' Day magazine

5. What leads Esther to be invited for lunch by Philomena Guinea?

6. What happens on the hill behind the chemistry lab at Yale?

7. Describe the article that Esther's mother gives her from Reader's Digest ("In Defense of Chastity").

8. What is Esther's opinion of Betsy?

9. Describe the movie that the girls go to see from Esther's point of view

10. Why does Mr. Willard leave Esther alone with Buddy at the sanatorium?

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