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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. In Chapter 11, what did a woman in the supermarket say to Duke in 1979, which led her to lose forty pounds?
(a) She asked when Duke's baby was due.
(b) She asked if Duke needed help walking.
(c) She told Duke she could not see past her.
(d) She called her too fat for the aisles.

2. Which summer stock play production did Duke fail to win a part in?
(a) The Bad Seed.
(b) Pollyanna.
(c) Mary Poppins.
(d) Fiddler on the Roof.

3. What had Ethel Ross once done for a living?
(a) She was an actress.
(b) She waited tables.
(c) She sang.
(d) She was a dancer.

4. What has Ray not done ever since his father died?
(a) Smoked cigarettes.
(b) Flew on an airplane.
(c) Consumed alcohol.
(d) Taken drugs.

5. What kind of accent did Duke have that the Rosses wanted to change?
(a) Southern.
(b) Midwestern.
(c) New Yorkese.
(d) Russian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Ethel and John Ross have of their own?

2. What type of television show was The $64,000 Challenge?

3. What commercial was Joey Trent, the other child the Rosses coached, famous for?

4. What were there a lot of in the isolation booths of The $64,000 Challenge?

5. What was the Ross's standard positive phrase to Duke, as told in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Duke most anxious about, causing her to go into psychotherapy for years?

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

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

4. What sort of lies would the Rosses make up in order to get acting work for Duke?

5. How did Duke's mother use the city bus as a form of recreation?

6. What were some of the things about her parts in the play, The Miracle Worker, that Duke liked best?

7. Why did Duke feel so close to Jean Byron, the actress who played Duke's mother on The Patty Duke Show?

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

9. Where did Duke's passion for acting begin?

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

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