Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Marion Meade
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Marion Meade
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Yessir, the Whaddycall 'em Blues1925.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trait did Dorothy develop despite her loneliness?
(a) A talent for making conversation.
(b) A talent for clever observation.
(c) A talent for self-entertainment.
(d) A talent for making friends.

2. Who did Dorothy meet at the Algonquin Hotel that she regarded as a mythical figure?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Polly Adler.
(c) Franklin Pierce Adams.
(d) Hal Borland.

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

4. Who was Dorothy teamed with professionally that turned into a short, but unsuccessful affair?
(a) Charles MacArthur.
(b) Elmer Rice.
(c) Robert Sherwood.
(d) George Kaufman

5. What year was Dorothy born?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1893.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dorothy think about her position at Vogue?

2. What did "Crownie" speak to Dorothy about the day before Christmas in 1919?

3. Where did Dorothy move in the beginning of 1923?

4. When Benchley and Sherwood were hired and joined Dorothy at Vanity Fair, what nickname were the three of them given?

5. Where were Dorothy's grandparents from?

(see the answer key)

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