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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Good Fights 1936-1937.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dorothy try to commit suicide after she realized how far behind her novel, "Sonnets to a Suicide", is?
(a) Pain killer overdose.
(b) Drinking a bottle of shoe polish.
(c) Jumping into the Seine.
(d) Standing on train tracks.

2. Who was Dorothy's personal hero?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Moss Hart.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) Dashiell Hammett.

3. What crucial adult responsibility was Dorothy ignorant about?
(a) She had no money sense.
(b) She didn't know how to shop for groceries.
(c) She didn't know how to do laundry.
(d) She didn't know how to drive a car.

4. Why did Dorothy like her new home?
(a) Because she had no domestic responsibilites.
(b) Because she had a maid.
(c) Because she had access to every speakeasy in the neighborhood.
(d) Because she always had hot water and someone to pick up after her.

5. Who, of Dorothy's friends, was she most saddened to be distanced from?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) Robert Sherwood.
(c) John Garrett.
(d) Robert Benchley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the house called that Alan and Dorothy purchase?

2. After Dorothy's play opened, how was Dorothy described?

3. Where were Dorothy's grandparents from?

4. What happened after Dorothy's book of poems, "Enough Rope", was published?

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

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