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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Toad Time 1948-1955.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Franklin Pierce Adams marry on May 9th, 1925?
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Esther Root.
(c) Maggie Swope.
(d) Edith Sitwell.

2. Who fulfilled Dorothy's maternal need?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her animals.
(c) Alan Campbell.
(d) Her friends.

3. What was considered risque behavior that Dorothy and Alan participated in?
(a) They had an open marriage.
(b) They got tattoos.
(c) They got piercings.
(d) They were living in sin.

4. Where was Alan stationed after being shipped overseas?
(a) Italy.
(b) London.
(c) Spain.
(d) Paris.

5. Who came up with the name of the lunch club?
(a) A cartoonist, Edmund Duffy.
(b) A cartoonist, Chester Gould.
(c) A novelist, Daniel Hickey.
(d) A writer, Frances Partridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alan and Dorothy felt that they couldn't lay down roots in Hollywood. Where did they buy a house to do just that?

2. What did Dorothy discover when she was 43?

3. Dorothy was asked to sit to have her portrait painted. Where was the portrait exhibited?

4. How many times was Valencia bombed while Dorothy and Alan were in Spain?

5. When was the first issue of The New Yorker published?

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