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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. What significant happening occurred when Dorothy was only 5 years old?
(a) Her mother died suddenly.
(b) Her grandparents came to live with the family.
(c) Her family moved to a different neighborhood.
(d) Her father died.

2. What movie earned Dorothy an Academy Award Nomination?
(a) Ladies of the Cooridoor.
(b) A Long Hot Summer.
(c) Some Like it Hot.
(d) The Lost Weekend.

3. In 1937, what did Dorothy and Alan do?
(a) Bid farewell to California.
(b) Wrote their own movie script.
(c) Have Alan's mother move in with them.
(d) Sell their house in Pennsylvania.

4. What did Benchley declare about California that Dorothy agreed with?
(a) That he hated the weather.
(b) That he hated Californians.
(c) That he hated the beach.
(d) That he hated Hollywood.

5. Who came up with the name of the lunch club?
(a) A novelist, Daniel Hickey.
(b) A cartoonist, Edmund Duffy.
(c) A cartoonist, Chester Gould.
(d) A writer, Frances Partridge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Dorothy get involved with in 1948?

3. Who did Robert Benchley meet while in Paris for the summer of 1925?

4. To survive, financially, what did Dorthy do?

5. Who, of Dorothy's friends, was she most saddened to be distanced from?

(see the answer key)

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