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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. What bothers Esther about the article "In Defense of Chastity"?
(a) It allows men to have pre-marital sex, but tells women not to.
(b) It advocates marriage.
(c) It ignores a woman's feelings.
(d) It condemns pre-martial sex.

2. What does the Ladies' Day magazine staff send to the girls as gifts?
(a) Cookbooks
(b) Copies of the magazine
(c) Soup
(d) Books of short stories

3. What does Esther resolve to do during her summer at home?
(a) Write a novel
(b) Take a summer course
(c) Break up with Buddy
(d) Gain life experience

4. Where do Buddy and Esther go after the Yale Junior Prom?
(a) To Buddy's fraternity house
(b) To a bar
(c) Back to Esther's college
(d) To a hill behind the chemistry lab

5. Which of the following does NOT adorn the waiting room at the sanatorium?
(a) Magazines
(b) A fountain
(c) Leather chairs
(d) Plants

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther do while Mr. Manzi is lecturing in chemistry class?

2. What keeps Esther and Doreen from attending the magazine party?

3. Why does Esther take her history book with her when she receives the phone call that Buddy is at her dorm?

4. What does Esther liken the potential choices she has in life to?

5. Why does Esther begin reading Finnegan's Wake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Eric's philosophy on sexual relationships?

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

3. How does Esther change from the beginning to the end of this chapter?

4. Why is Esther upset when Buddy tells her he is no longer a virgin?

5. Describe the sanatorium where Buddy is receiving treatment for TB.

6. According to Esther, what is her mother's opinion of her interest in becoming a writer or editor?

7. Describe Esther and Hilda's conversation at breakfast.

8. Who are Frankie and Lenny?

9. Describe Jay Cee (from Esther's perspective)

10. Why does Marco give Esther his diamond stick pin?

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