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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 did Bill Schallert very often pretend to be around Duke?
(a) A woman.
(b) A monkey.
(c) Her father.
(d) Not very bright.

2. Who lived in an old mansion on 74th Street in Manhattan?
(a) The Rosses.
(b) Ben Gazzara.
(c) Ray Duke.
(d) Huntz Hall.

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

4. Who was Mrs. Duke most worried about during Duke's near-accidental drowning in Chapter 11?
(a) Duke's audience.
(b) Duke, herself.
(c) The Rosses.
(d) Duke's father.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Rosses have a doctor give Duke a shot of whenever she was ill in Chapter 11?

3. What did Duke have nightmares about in Chapter 6?

4. In which year did Duke make headlines in the New York Times?

5. What was the fictional name of Duke's boyfriend on The Patty Duke Show?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was it that, as detailed in Chapter 5, Duke was more afraid of the Rosses than she was of God?

2. Why would Shirley Bernstein get nervous when asking Duke four questions?

3. In what way does Duke believe she was well trained by the Rosses?

4. In Chapter 3, how did Duke use her dog, Skippy, to help her cry on New Year's Eve?

5. Why did John Ross change his name from John Valentine Rossi?

6. Why was it that Duke was not able to see her close-up in the film, The Miracle Worker, when she made a good and bad girl face?

7. In Chapter 14, what was one of the worst stage experiences Duke ever had?

8. How was it that Duke did not see the movies she appeared in until many years later?

9. What job did Duke have to do as a child that involved going to a bar?

10. Why did Duke walk off the set of the Matt Lincoln, M.D. show in 1970?

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