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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes up with Norma Jeane's stage name?

2. What does Widmark say about Marilyn Monroe?

3. What is Don't Bother to Knock?

4. Who is Frank Widdoes?

5. Who is Lizbeth Short?

Short Essay Questions

1. What class does Norma Jeane take at UCLA?

2. Who is Otto?

3. Who is Bucky Glazer?

4. Who does Norma Jeane embody for her role in Don't Bother to Knock?

5. Where does Gladys live beginning in her mid-thirties?

6. Who is Gladys?

7. Who does Norma Jeane run into at the Agency in "For Hire"?

8. What are Norma Jeane's religious beliefs?

9. Why does the staff at Norwalk get excited when Norma Jeane visits her mother in "Nell 1952"?

10. Who is Frank Widdoes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring Norma Jeane's coming of age. What outside influences made Norma Jeane's transition through puberty particularly uncomfortable for her?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the depiction of Marilyn Monroe once she becomes a public image. What does her persona come to represent or symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Norma Jeane's relationship to her diary. Why does she being keeping a diary as a young girl? In what ways is this practice beneficial?

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