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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Ham and Cheese, Hold the Mayo 1961-1964.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dorothy's first job?
(a) Playing piano for an all-womens choir.
(b) Playing piano for a small, local theater.
(c) Playing piano for a dance studio.
(d) Playing piano at a small cafe.

2. Who was the publication that Harold Ross and Jane Grant created marketed toward?
(a) The suburban housewife.
(b) The sophisticated metropolitain.
(c) The urban housewife.
(d) The single young lady.

3. Why didn't the Round Tablers think Dorothy was serious?
(a) Because she told them all about her plans beforehand.
(b) Because she left the door open to her room.
(c) Because she wasn't successful.
(d) Because she ordered dinner first.

4. What movie earned Dorothy an Academy Award Nomination?
(a) A Long Hot Summer.
(b) Some Like it Hot.
(c) Ladies of the Cooridoor.
(d) The Lost Weekend.

5. How did Dorothy make it through the holidays of 1922?
(a) She obsessively contemplated suicide.
(b) She drank so much she wound up in the hospital.
(c) She went to a seaside resort.
(d) She went to visit her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Dorothy begin to see after she broke off romantically from Seward?

2. Dorothy had only one requirement of the men who were constantly streaming through her life. What was that requirement?

3. How much did Dorothy sell her first poem for?

4. When Dorothy wrote in Paris, who did she write about and why?

5. Dorothy's writing, "Too Bad", exemplified a couple in her life. Who was that couple?

(see the answer key)

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