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

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

3. On which bridge in Chapter 4 was Duke traveling in a taxi cab when she got out and ran away, scared?
(a) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) The 59th Street Bridge.
(c) The Triborough Bridge.
(d) The George Washington Bridge.

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

5. With what illness was Duke diagnosed in 1982?
(a) Social anxiety.
(b) Manic-depression.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Schizophrenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which play did Duke win a major role in Chapter 8?

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

3. What part on The Patty Duke Show did Jean Byron play?

4. What does Duke associate the smells of Old Spice and alcohol with?

5. What night of the year was it when Duke's sister went out with a man and her mother attacked herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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