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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What show had Eddie Hodges, the boy she competed with on The $64,000 Challenge, been in?
(a) Bye Bye Birdie.
(b) Annie Get Your Gun.
(c) Fiddler on the Roof.
(d) The Music Man.

2. On which bridge in Chapter 4 was Duke traveling in a taxi cab when she got out and ran away, scared?
(a) The 59th Street Bridge.
(b) The Triborough Bridge.
(c) The George Washington Bridge.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

3. What neighborhood did Duke's family live in when she was a child?
(a) Kips Bay.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Hell's Kitchen.
(d) Sheepshead Bay.

4. What was Duke's real name, that the Rosses wanted to change?
(a) Anne Marie.
(b) Anna Marie.
(c) Patricia Ann.
(d) Maria Ann.

5. How many children did Ethel and John Ross have of their own?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of her very first acting jobs does Duke remember best?

2. Why did Duke sometimes purposely make mistakes during rehearsals of The Miracle Worker?

3. What happened to Duke's mother's hand when the family lived on East 31st Street?

4. In Chapter 11, what did a woman in the supermarket say to Duke in 1979, which led her to lose forty pounds?

5. What did Duke have to do to Caswell Fairweather on stage in The Miracle Worker?

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