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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. Where did the Rosses take a vacation with Duke, bringing along Harry Falk?

2. What was The Westwood?

3. What name did Duke begin to use after her marriage to Harry Falk?

4. What happened to Duke right after The Patty Duke Show series ended in Chapter 19?

5. Where did Duke spend her last two years of elementary school?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why might Duke have been so uncomfortable with Joanna Barnes, Harry Falk's friend?

4. Why did Duke marry Michael Tell?

5. Why did Duke have so much trouble in her relationship with Desi Arnaz, Jr.?

6. Why was The Patty Duke Show canceled in 1966?

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

8. What helped cause Duke to have her first major manic episode?

9. Why, when Bobby Kennedy was shot, did Duke become so hysterical, even losing some control over herself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the personalities of John and Ethel Ross.

Essay Topic 2

Duke often felt, as a young girl, that even if she did something right, she had still done wrong. Give examples of times when she might have felt this way and explain why. Examine how the Rosses had a hand in Duke having these feelings of confusion.

Essay Topic 3

When Duke left the Rosses to live alone and began to date Harry Falk, her behavior changed. In what ways did Duke behave when she was more or less on her own? Why did she behave in this fashion?

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