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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Yessir, the Whaddycall 'em Blues1925.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Benchley and Sherwood were hired and joined Dorothy at Vanity Fair, what nickname were the three of them given?
(a) The Three Musketeers.
(b) The Cub Lions.
(c) The Three Blind Mice.
(d) The Jokers.

2. Whose speakeasy did Dorothy and Benchley frequent?
(a) Billy Wilkerson.
(b) Owney Madden.
(c) Jimmy Walker.
(d) Tony Soma.

3. Who did Robert Benchley meet while in Paris for the summer of 1925?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. What did "Crownie" speak to Dorothy about the day before Christmas in 1919?
(a) That her work ethic needed to improve.
(b) The quality of her work and that she wouldn't be receiving a raise.
(c) That her language needed to improve in the office.
(d) That the quality of her work was improving with each project she worked on.

5. Who did Robert Benchley choose as a roommate when he rented an apartment in the city?
(a) Robert Sherwood.
(b) Donald Ogden Stewart.
(c) George Kaufman.
(d) Charles MacArthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Rothchild's do after Henry's second wife died that was representative of their position in society?

2. Dorothy had only one requirement of the men who were constantly streaming through her life. What was that requirement?

3. What pet project did Dorothy's colleagues, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, worked desperately to get published?

4. What, during the era of 1922-1923, did Dorothy discover that she found helped her?

5. When Henry, Dorothy's father, remarried, what happened to Dorothy and her sister?

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