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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 27 - 33).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-Three, what does Vivian say she remembers most about the war years in New York City?
(a) Earning more money than she had ever earned before.
(b) An overriding sense of coarseness.
(c) Not playing any games.
(d) Not having enough to eat.

2. Why does Peg tell Vivian she has come back for her?
(a) She has sympathy for Vivian's same-sex interests.
(b) She is mad at Edna for exiling Vivian.
(c) She likes Vivian, and once she likes people, she likes them forever.
(d) She never had a daughter and Vivian is as close as she is going to get to having one.

3. What does Edna tell Vivian and Celia about finding their own fashion sense and not just following trends?
(a) You need to work with your own figure.
(b) It is not your clothes so much as your eyes that tell a story.
(c) We cannot just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.
(d) Fashion sense is all down to the wearer.

4. In Chapter Twenty-Two, why does Peg say she wants Vivian to come back to New York City with her?
(a) She misses Vivian's quick needlework.
(b) She misses Vivian reading to her and Olive at night.
(c) She needs her to help put on shows at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as part of a military contract.
(d) She misses Vivian's jokes.

5. What does Peg do when Vivian tells her she does not know her way around Manhattan?
(a) Hires a driver to take her around.
(b) Tells Vivian to go out on her own and learn the lay of the land by herself.
(c) Tells Celia to show her around.
(d) Sketches her a quick map on a napkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Sixteen, what does Brooks Atkinson's review of City of Girls say is the great pleasure in the play?

2. What does Olive tell Vivian in Chapter Twenty-Nine that changes her mind about speaking to the veteran who approached her at the Navy Yard earlier?

3. What does Olive want to do in Chapter Nineteen that Peg and Billy say is no use?

4. What does Peg apologize to Vivian for in Chapter Twenty?

5. In Chapter Two, who does Vivian meet at Grand Central Station instead of Aunt Peg?

(see the answer key)

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