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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role-playing game did Duke play with her childhood friend, Margie?

2. Who was Mrs. Duke most worried about during Duke's near-accidental drowning in Chapter 11?

3. Why did the Rosses let Duke leave the apartment on her own to begin filming in Chapter 12?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What philosophical approach, suggested by Astin, does Duke follow today?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why did Duke have to appear before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight in 1959?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of Duke's most important triumphs was her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, both on stage on in film. Explore Duke's relationship with co-star Anne Bancroft. How did Duke feel about Bancroft? What did Bancroft represent? How did the relationship affect her?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Duke's behavior as a child TV star living with the Rosses and her behavior as an adult.

Essay Topic 3

Duke married Michael Tell, a man she did not even know. What does the photograph of the two of them show about her mindset at the time? How, according to Duke, could she marry a complete stranger, and why?

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