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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 10 - 12 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paragraph 7 says that Lady Day would stay longer if only she did not have to do what?
(a) Go on dates.
(b) Cook dinner.
(c) Pay her bills.
(d) Clean her house.

2. What is Lady Day said to have always been in paragraph 4?
(a) A man's lady.
(b) A performer at heart.
(c) An elegant woman.
(d) A loner.

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

4. Who will Lady Day's friends quote while trying to comfort her after a brake-up?
(a) Miss Davis.
(b) Miss Crawford.
(c) Miss Hayworth.
(d) Miss Hepburn.

5. How did someone describe Lady Day's face after she "got skinny" according to paragraph 9?
(a) Gaunt.
(b) Egyptian Death Mask.
(c) Emaciated.
(d) Skeletal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the people who offer to walk Lady Day to the club worried might happen if they do not?

3. Paragraph 10 describes how people shout song requests to the singer as if she is what?

4. In paragraph 7, what are some things the speaker says people are always telling babies?

5. What did the singer wish she said to an interviewer from the Daily News who once asked about how she does not read music?

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