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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Toad Time 1948-1955.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After receiving a telegram from John Garrett, what did Dorothy consider?
(a) Suicide by drowning in the Seine.
(b) Going home to New York.
(c) Accepting his marriage proposal.
(d) Suicide by jumping off the balcony.

2. Dorothy had enough of the filth of living with roommates and moved where?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) The Volney.
(c) With Kate d'Usseau.
(d) The Algonquin.

3. When Henry, Dorothy's father, remarried, what happened to Dorothy and her sister?
(a) They were sent to boarding school.
(b) They were sent to a work camp.
(c) They were sent to an orphanage.
(d) They were sent to a parochial school.

4. Why did most of the writers from the East Coast end up in Hollywood?
(a) The working conditions were better.
(b) The salaries were exorbitant.
(c) The weather.
(d) The beach.

5. When Eddie returned to New York in August of 1919, what did he bring with him?
(a) A child.
(b) A deep addiction to prostitutes.
(c) A drinking habit.
(d) A deep addiction to morphine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dorothy was introduced to Alvan Barach at a party. What type of medicine does he practice?

2. What did Dorothy's ideas change about?

3. What was Dorothy's form of writing dubbed?

4. Who was the other "most sought-after" women of 1932?

5. What happened to Dorothy during the court case?

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