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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 does Billy spend an enormous sum of money on for the dancers and stars of City of Girls right before the show opens?
2. Where was Vivian when Pearl Harbor happened?
3. In Chapter Twenty-Three, what does Vivian help Peg and Olive to do at the Navy Yard?
4. What song does the choir sing at Walter's funeral that Vivian cries through?
5. How does Walter Winchell dismiss Peg and Vivian from his table at the club in Chapter Nineteen?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Fourteen, what does Vivian say is the key to falling in love so fast, and who does this sentiment pertain to at this time in her life?
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 Sixteen, what does Billy do on opening night of City of Girls that shocks Vivian, and why does it surprise her so much?
4. How does Vivian get home to her parents' house in Chapter Twenty-One?
5. How is Anthony Roccella different from any man Vivian has ever met before?
6. In Chapter Sixteen, what are the initial reviews of City of Girls like?
7. In Chapter Twenty-Three, why does Peg tell Vivian's parents she has come to collect Vivian to take her back to New York, and why does she really come back for Vivian?
8. In Chapter Fifteen, what transpires between Peg and Olive that greatly hurts Olive and causes a scene in front of the whole company at The Lily?
9. On the way back to New York in Chapter Twenty-Two, what does Peg tell Vivian about sin and contrition?
10. In Chapter Twenty-Two, who is Jim Larsen and what does he mean to Vivian?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does meeting and spending time with Edna Parker Watson forever alter Vivian's life? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How do Frank Grecco and Vivian Morris both suffer from the shame they feel when, at different times in their lives, they have failed to live up to society's expectations about how an ideal man and woman should behave? How does Vivian's earlier disgrace help her console Frank with his shame when he is a much older man? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Vivian feels worse about lying about her past to Jim Larsen than anything else she has previously done at that point in her life (306)? What does Vivian's brief engagement to Jim Larsen reveal about her state of mind, and what does it symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to support your analysis.
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