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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 was the Ross's standard positive phrase to Duke, as told in Chapter 13?
(a) "Love ya!"
(b) "Great day!"
(c) "Good girl!"
(d) "You're the best."

2. What happened to Duke's family's Christmas tree nearly every year when she was a child?
(a) Her mother tipped it over.
(b) Her father threw it out the window.
(c) It would burn down.
(d) Someone would steal it.

3. In Chapter 7, what did Shirley Bernstein suggest that Duke read in preparation for The $64,000 Challenge?
(a) Billboard.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Rolling Stone Magazine.
(d) The New York Times.

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

5. Why was The Patty Duke Show so exciting for Duke to do?
(a) She had some freedom at last.
(b) The TV role was challenging for her to do.
(c) She simply loved television acting.
(d) She was in love with her boyfriend co-star.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did Duke do in Chapter 13 when John Ross made advances towards her in the hotel room?

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

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

5. Who, in Chapter 9, did Duke hero-worship and become very close to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did John Ross make Duke prepare for The Miracle Worker audition?

3. During the run of The Miracle Worker on Broadway, what one part of the temper tantrums in Act 2 did Duke find the most horrible to deal with?

4. When did Duke realize that the Rosses had attempted to molest her?

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

6. How did the Rosses ease The Miracle Worker's producers' fears that Duke would grow tall too quickly to fit into the role for long?

7. While onstage during The Miracle Worker in Chapter 9, what did actor Thorin Thatcher do when he forgot his lines?

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

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

10. Why was the last day of shooting of The Miracle Worker something Duke had long been dreading?

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