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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 trait does Dr. Nolan say women find attractive in each other?
(a) Intelligence
(b) Compassion
(c) Tenderness
(d) Beauty

2. How does Esther learn of the circumstances that led to her rescue from the basement?
(a) Joan tells her.
(b) Through a news article Joan shows her.
(c) Dr. Nolan tells her.
(d) Through a letter that her mother writes her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther notice about the people outside of the hospital?

2. Why does Buddy Willard visit Esther in the asylum?

3. How does Esther ultimately decide she will do to commit suicide?

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

5. What does Esther do to pay tribute to Joan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Nolan tell Esther to help her feel better about Joan's death?

2. Describe the scene at the cemetery.

3. What is the only item that gives Esther pleasure in the hospital? Why?

4. What news does Esther expect Dr. Nolan to give her after her insulin reaction? What news does she actually give her?

5. How does Esther feel as she is waiting to enter her exit hearing?

6. Describe Irwin

7. What keeps Esther from drowning herself at the beach?

8. What do the voices in Esther's head tell her as she sits in the park contemplating suicide?

9. Describe Esther's encounter with the sailor

10. What thoughts consume Esther after finding out she must have shock treatments?

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