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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Duke do to her understudy on a matinee day in Chapter 10?
(a) Let her go on.
(b) Tripped her onstage.
(c) Ripped her clothes off.
(d) Made her sick.

2. Where did Duke's father take her on Sundays after church?
(a) Shopping.
(b) To the bakery.
(c) To a playground.
(d) To Grandpa's bar.

3. By what name does Duke refer to the Rosses in Chapter 12?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Hitler.
(b) Bonnie and Clyde.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Jack the Ripper.
(d) The Billy-the-Kid gang.

4. What were there a lot of in the isolation booths of The $64,000 Challenge?
(a) Wash 'n Dris.
(b) Towels.
(c) Baby wipes.
(d) Bottles of water.

5. What was the fictional name of Duke's boyfriend on The Patty Duke Show?
(a) Tommy,
(b) Eddie.
(c) Paul.
(d) Richard.

6. Who was Sidney Sheldon?
(a) He played Duke's boyfriend on her TV show.
(b) He wrote the pilot for the Patty Duke Show.
(c) He was Duke's date at the Oscars.
(d) He was Duke's real father.

7. What was Duke's father's main problem in life?
(a) He had no skills.
(b) He was an alcoholic.
(c) He hadn't gone to high school.
(d) He wasn't very tall.

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

9. What is the title of the science fiction film that Duke was in from 1959?
(a) They Came From Outer Space.
(b) The Atomic Kid.
(c) The 4-D Man.
(d) The Blob.

10. What did Duke have nightmares about in Chapter 6?
(a) LIving with the Rosses.
(b) Losing her mother.
(c) Working with Ray.
(d) Making commercials.

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

12. What, cinematically, was there a lack of in The Miracle Worker film?
(a) Color film.
(b) Close-ups.
(c) Sound.
(d) Shadows.

13. Why did the Rosses have Stanley Praeger fired in Chapter 14?
(a) He was not a good director.
(b) He abused Duke.
(c) He was getting too close to Duke.
(d) He was always late to the set.

14. Who stood in the back of the theater to watch Duke perform in The Miracle Worker without her finding out about it until much later?
(a) Sir Laurence Olivier.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) John Astin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role-playing game did Duke play with her childhood friend, Margie?

2. In Chapter 12, what were the black woman's cats referred to as?

3. For which play did rehearsals begin in August of 1959?

4. What had Ethel Ross once done for a living?

5. What was "Skelly and Larney's"?

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