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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. Who does Vivian ask in Chapter Fifteen about whether Peg is a lesbian?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Edna.
(c) Celia.
(d) Billy.
2. What does Olive want to do in Chapter Nineteen that Peg and Billy say is no use?
(a) Go to talk to Walter Winchell to try to get him not to print Vivian's name in his column.
(b) Go talk to Edna to try to convince her to stay in the play.
(c) Go talk to Arthur to fire him.
(d) Go bribe Walter Winchell so that he will not print Vivian's name in his column.
3. Which critic wrote a glowing review of Vivian's costumes for City of Girls?
(a) Kit Yardley.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) Helen Gabler.
(d) Hedda Hayes.
4. In Chapter Twenty-Three, what does Olive tell Vivian when Vivian tries to thank her for saving her?
(a) Not to be so grasping.
(b) To save her apologies for the next time.
(c) That she was young and stupid once too.
(d) That she has always loved Vivian.
5. Which very famous actress wrote a letter of congratulations to Edna Parker Watson in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Ella Fitzgerald.
(b) Ethel Barrymore.
(c) Audrey Hepburn.
(d) Katherine Hepburn.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Vivian refer to as the song of her people?
2. What does Edna say to Vivian in Chapter Eighteen that hurts Vivian's feelings?
3. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Vivian's brother do for the entire ride back to Clinton?
4. What does Billy spend an enormous sum of money on for the dancers and stars of City of Girls right before the show opens?
5. What ship was Vivian's brother on when he was killed in the war?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Vivian get home to her parents' house in Chapter Twenty-One?
2. What does Peg tell Vivian about how she feels about the fact that Olive was the one to take Vivian to The Stork to talk to Walter Winchell?
3. In Chapter Twenty-Two, who is Jim Larsen and what does he mean to Vivian?
4. Why does Billy hire Anthony Roccella without ever even hearing him sing?
5. In Chapter Sixteen, what does Billy tell Vivian to look for in the lobby during intermission among the theater goers as a sign they like the play?
6. In Chapter Fourteen, what does Edna tell Vivian about Anthony and the show, City of Girls?
7. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Vivian refer to as the "song of my people?"
8. In Chapter Twenty-Two, what does Peg tell Vivian has happened to the play City of Girls that shocks Vivian?
9. In Chapter Sixteen, what are the initial reviews of City of Girls like?
10. On the way back to New York in Chapter Twenty-Two, what does Peg tell Vivian about sin and contrition?
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