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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cause did Dorothy feel the need to get involved in?
(a) The Third Reich's persecution of the Jews.
(b) The Communist Propaganda.
(c) The Third Reich's youth group.
(d) The Screen Actors Guild.

2. Where did Dorothy go twice a week to get drunk while in Paris?
(a) Moulin Rouge.
(b) A bordello in town.
(c) A bar by the Seine.
(d) Cannes.

3. Who inspired Dorothy to pick up her fiction writing again?
(a) Robert Benchley.
(b) Alan Campbell.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Sheilah Graham.

4. When did Dorothy and Alan get married?
(a) June 18, 1934.
(b) July 8, 1934.
(c) June 8, 1934.
(d) June 28, 1934.

5. Who did Dorothy get involved with in 1948?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Dalton Trumbo.
(c) Irving Lazar.
(d) Rosser Lynn Evans.

6. In her will, who did Dorothy leave all her assets to?
(a) Reverend Martin Luther King.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The NRA.
(d) The Screen Writers Guild.

7. Who did Dorothy meet in the winter of 1936 that caused her grief?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) Don Stewart.
(c) Otto Katz.
(d) Horte Campbell.

8. What did Dorothy and Alan apply for instead of working?
(a) The Guild of the Unemployed Screen Writers.
(b) Unemployment.
(c) Retirement Fund of the Screen Actors Guild.
(d) The Screen Writers Guild retirement fund.

9. In 1946, what did Dorothy do about her relationship with Alan?
(a) She announced her intent to divorce him.
(b) She had an affair with even younger men to spite him.
(c) She reconciled with him.
(d) She moved overseas to be with him.

10. How old did Dorothy turn in 1933?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 45.
(d) 40.

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

12. 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.

13. How many columns did Dorothy end up writing for Esquire?
(a) 52.
(b) 53.
(c) 12.
(d) 46.

14. Who was the other "most sought-after" women of 1932?
(a) Mary Mooney.
(b) Zelda Fitzgerald.
(c) Sarah Murphy.
(d) Fanny Brice.

15. Dorothy donated money to several causes during 1936. What about donating the money never occurred to her?
(a) Ask questions about the origins of the groups or how the money was spent.
(b) Follow up with the groups.
(c) Do research on the causes.
(d) File the donations on her taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Dorothy turn to when Alan left?

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

3. On what day did Dorothy pass away?

4. What did Dorothy do to all the work she created while in Paris?

5. What was the name of the Dachshund Dorothy bought in Munich?

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