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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 did Duke's managers, Irwin and Stich, do in Chapter 30?

2. What did Duke's relationship with Frank Sinatra, Jr., mostly consist of?

3. What happened to Duke in Chapter 31 while singing the words to a song she did not know?

4. How did Duke come across during the 1970 Emmy Awards show when she won?

5. Where did Duke get her first kiss?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Duke compensate, in school, for being one of the shortest students there?

2. Why did Duke's pregnancy in Chapter 27 become such a media frenzy?

3. How did Duke happen to fall in love with Harry Falk?

4. How did Duke decide to change her appearance once she became attracted to Harry Falk?

5. Why did Duke and her new husband, Harry Falk, find collecting Duke's money from the county clerk's office to be a painful event?

6. What do you think took Duke so long to realize that her husband, Harry Falk, was seeing another woman in California?

7. How did the Rosses make a good working couple, as recognized by Duke in Chapter 31?

8. What caused Duke to suddenly take up smoking and swearing?

9. Why did Duke want to make the film, Me, Natalie?

10. While the children were very bothersome to Duke, John Astin seemed to have no trouble with them. Why was this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the theme of death throughout Duke's book. What evidence does Duke give that death is an important element throughout her life?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Duke's relationship (or lack thereof) with her father when she was a child. Include a description of his personality, how it affected the relationship and why Duke feels her book was written to set the record straight regarding him.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the first half of the book, Duke tells of the horrible ways the Rosses treated her. Much of the writing exhibits a tone of bitterness and anger, while at the same time there is an aura of forgiveness. Examine Duke's tone in her writing style when discussing how the Rosses treated her.

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