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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 John Ross apologize about in a letter to Duke in Chapter 15?

2. What book was Harry Falk reading on Fire Island in Chapter 19?

3. What did Liza Minnelli lend to Duke during her Academy Awards rehearsal?

4. What did Harry Falk promise Duke about Mount Sinai hospital when he wanted her to go there?

5. Where was Duke when she tried to commit suicide by taking about thirty sleeping pills?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Duke decide to adopt John Astin's children?

5. How believable is Duke's story of her relationship with Frank Sinatra?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. How did Duke get along with Judy Garland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

When Ethel Ross's mother died, Duke was devastated. How did "Gramma" have a direct effect upon Duke's relationship with the Rosses? How did her death become the impetus for a break between Duke and the Rosses?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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