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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What artist does Vanessa want Joan to love one night in the winter of 1982?
(a) David Bowie.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Alice Cooper.
(d) Talking Heads.

2. During a conversation about God, where does Vanessa tell Joan she wants to take her flying early in the morning?
(a) The Rockies.
(b) The prairie.
(c) The Atlantic.
(d) The Pacific.

3. What flowers does Vanessa tell Frances are "beautiful and tough as nails" (210)?
(a) Roses.
(b) Pansies.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Black-eyed Susans.

4. When did Joan's grandfather leave her father?
(a) When he was 2.
(b) When he was 9.
(c) When he was a teen.
(d) When he was a baby.

5. Who is the first American woman astronaut to fly on the space shuttle?
(a) Peggy Whitson.
(b) Christine Koch.
(c) Sally Ride.
(d) Eileen Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie does Frances decide she wants to see when she spends a weekend with Joan?

2. What boarding school are Barbara and Daniel planning to send Frances to?

3. What are the entrees at Barbara's wedding?

4. What room number do Joan and Vanessa stay in when they go away together for the first time?

5. Who do Griff and Vanessa think wrote the best song about space?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Joan, Donna, and Lydia feel about the jokes the men make about them and the other women in the ASCAN program?

2. What does Vanessa tell Frances when Frances shares that she likes being with Joan and Vanessa, but does not like being home?

3. Why is Joan selected to be the first woman to fly in the shuttle?

4. Why does Barbara bring Frances to Joan's apartment one night?

5. What does Barbara decide to do for Thanksgiving in 1984?

6. How is the one-year mark of the ASCANs' training marked?

7. What is Vanessa's response when Joan asks her to come pick up Frances one day?

8. Why does Vanessa say that only an idiot would call someone a "pansy" (210)?

9. When was the first time Joan got hives?

10. What does Antonio have to say about the ASCANs in August 1981?

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