Quotes for Mock

Question 1

Esther pg 2-3 stillness

Answer 1

“I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

Question 2

Esther pg 2 supposed

Answer 2

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”

Question 3

Esther pg 233 heart

Answer 3

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Question 4

Esther pg 77

Answer 4

“I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not”

Question 5

Esther pg 1

Answer 5

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

Question 6

Esther pg 206 the bell jar

Answer 6

“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

Question 7

Esther pg 73 fig tree

Answer 7

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.”

Question 8

Esther pg 2 control

Answer 8

“Only I wasn’t steering anything not even myself.”

Question 9

Esther pg 5 Doreens clothing

Answer 9

“the colour of sin”

Question 10

Doreen on Betsey

Answer 10

“Polyanna cowgirl”