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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Vivian and her friends do with the money Dr. Kellogg gives her after they have sex?
(a) Buy new dresses.
(b) Buy supplies to fix up The Lily.
(c) Go for cocktails at a fancy bar.
(d) Go to Coney Island.

2. Who taught Vivian how to do the activity she most enjoys in Chapter One?
(a) Grandfather Morris.
(b) Grandmother Morris.
(c) Vivian's mother.
(d) Vivian's father.

3. Who is The Lily's Songwriter?
(a) Daniel Swanson.
(b) Margaret Taylor.
(c) Benjamin Wilson.
(d) Tony Klinger.

4. Who does Peg call in Chapter Ten to write a play with a good role for Edna?
(a) Barley Smith.
(b) Fignewt Singleton.
(c) Billy Buell.
(d) Mr. Henderson.

5. What kind of plays is Enda best known for performing?
(a) Avant-Garde.
(b) Shakespearean.
(c) Modern.
(d) Burlesque.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Peg own?

2. Which of the following does Vivian recall having anxiety about in her personal life in the summer of 1940?

3. What does Edna tell Vivian and Celia about finding their own fashion sense and not just following trends?

4. Where did Vivian's mother go to college?

5. Why was Peg unable to meet Vivian at the train station when Vivian first arrives in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter One, why do Vivian's parents send her to live with her Aunt Peg in the summer of 1940?

2. What circumstances bring Edna Parker Watson and Arthur Watson to The Lily Playhouse?

3. In Chapter Seven, why does Celia tell Vivian to go get her cigarettes and not come back to the hotel room?

4. In Chapter Three, what does Vivian refer to as her "perfect" New York?

5. What was Vivian's relationship with her grandmother Morris, her father's mother, like?

6. How does Celia Ray become Vivian's roommate?

7. In Chapter Nine, how does Vivian feel when she meets Arthur Watson?

8. How does Vivian's Aunt Peg come by enough money to have bought The Lily Playhouse?

9. In Chapter Eight, how did Vivian feel about the impending war in 1940?

10. How does Vivian describe Celia's feelings about being assaulted in the hotel room in Chapter 7?

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