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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 5 - 9 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lady Day do on the advice of her friends?
(a) She gets a dog.
(b) She finds a husband.
(c) She moves to the country.
(d) She stops performing.

2. In paragraph 3, who does Lady Day drink with until morning after a show?
(a) The drummer.
(b) Her manager.
(c) Her best girlfriend.
(d) The clarinet player.

3. Where does Lady Day keep her cigarrettes?
(a) In a diamond encrusted cigarette box.
(b) In a sterling silber cigarette box.
(c) In the pack they came in.
(d) In a pearl-encrusted cigarette box.

4. What is Lady Day's little dog's name?
(a) Pepi.
(b) Levi.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Pippie.

5. What does the speaker say Lady Day and her dog Pepi are?
(a) Arch enemies.
(b) Best friends.
(c) Perfect strangers.
(d) Soul mates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does paragraph 5 imply about Lady Day's relationship with certain women?

2. Who does the story's subject not wish to be mistaken for at the start of "Crazy They Call Me"?

3. Paragraph 9 ends by saying Lady Day paints her face as a form of what?

4. At which point does Lady Day think "all is forgiven" (para. 8) during a show?

5. What happened to the big dog Lady Day used to have?

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