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

2. What event took place for Duke on March 7, 1960?
(a) Duke was fired from The Miracle Worker.
(b) The Booth Theater closed down.
(c) Duke was given star billing on the theater's marquee.
(d) The Rosses left Duke as managers.

3. Who did Duke appear with in the television production of "One Red Rose for Christmas"?
(a) Helen Hayes.
(b) Julie Harris.
(c) Anne Bancroft.
(d) Laurence Olivier.

4. What type of television show was The $64,000 Challenge?
(a) A variety show.
(b) A comedy.
(c) A quiz show.
(d) A soap opera.

5. Who was the principal earner in the Ross household?
(a) Mrs. Duke.
(b) Ethel Ross.
(c) Duke.
(d) John Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Duke's father's main problem in life?

2. What was John Ross's real last name?

3. Why was The Patty Duke Show so exciting for Duke to do?

4. What habit did Duke develop to cover the sound of her screams at night in Chapter 4?

5. What job did Ernesto Caparos have on The Miracle Worker film?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the Ross's dog, Bambi, treated?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What did Duke find herself praying for in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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