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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 role-playing game did Duke play with her childhood friend, Margie?
(a) Acting as parents.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Acting.
(d) Being nuns.

2. What happened to Duke's mother's hand when the family lived on East 31st Street?
(a) It got stuck in the washing machine.
(b) She sprained it hitting Patty.
(c) Scroungy bit it.
(d) It got caught in the door.

3. Who did Duke have her most memorable meeting with during the run of The Miracle Worker?
(a) Elizabeth Taylor.
(b) Helen Keller.
(c) Cary Grant.
(d) Katharine Cornell.

4. What did the Rosses have Duke do from her very first audition?
(a) Serve cookies.
(b) Lie.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dance.

5. What happened to Duke just before rehearsals as the result of an accident in Chapter 9?
(a) She broke her arm.
(b) She broker her leg.
(c) She had a high fever.
(d) She cut her forehead.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Duke's biggest career disappointments was not being cast in which film?

2. When Duke introduced her then-husband, John Astin, to Sir Laurence Olivier, why couldn't Olivier shake hands?

3. What did Duke have to walk to a bar to get as a child?

4. As told in Chapter 10, what did Duke have to hide from other people, even after knowing how well The Miracle Worker was doing?

5. What was young Billy McNally doing when the Rosses discovered him?

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