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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Collins after he and Dorothy ended their relationship?
(a) He was accused of being a facist and an embezzler.
(b) He was accused of being in the Mob.
(c) He was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer and a facist.
(d) He was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer and a homosexual.

2. Where did Dorothy go when she stopped going to school?
(a) To a boarding house.
(b) To live with her sister.
(c) To a halfway house.
(d) To live with her father.

3. What did the Rothchild's do after Henry's second wife died that was representative of their position in society?
(a) They began to collect dogs.
(b) They started hoarding.
(c) They moved to the country.
(d) They boarded up the windows.

4. What crucial adult responsibility was Dorothy ignorant about?
(a) She had no money sense.
(b) She didn't know how to do laundry.
(c) She didn't know how to shop for groceries.
(d) She didn't know how to drive a car.

5. Who, from "Vanity Fair", did Dorothy choose as a role model?
(a) Jemima Pinkerton.
(b) Jane.
(c) Amelia Sedley.
(d) Becky Sharp.

6. What did Dorothy's grandparents do for work when they moved to Alabama?
(a) They made collectibles.
(b) They sold upscale and fancy wares.
(c) They sold food and groceries.
(d) They sold used furniture.

7. What pet project did Dorothy's colleagues, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, worked desperately to get published?
(a) Our Town.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) New York Weekly.
(d) Manhattan.

8. How did Dorothy and her siblings feel about their stepmother?
(a) They felt indifferent toward her.
(b) They loved her.
(c) They didn't like her at all.
(d) They immediately welcomed her.

9. Who was the publication that Harold Ross and Jane Grant created marketed toward?
(a) The suburban housewife.
(b) The urban housewife.
(c) The sophisticated metropolitain.
(d) The single young lady.

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

11. What was the most significant difference in Dorothy's life of that of her friends?
(a) She had to work and they didn't.
(b) She came from a wealthy family and they came from poverty.
(c) She had no money and they were wealthy.
(d) She spent all her earnings on her residence.

12. What was Dorothy's first job?
(a) Playing piano for a small, local theater.
(b) Playing piano for an all-womens choir.
(c) Playing piano at a small cafe.
(d) Playing piano for a dance studio.

13. What was Dorothy's form of writing dubbed?
(a) The "Elevated Foot School of Journalism."
(b) The "Elevated Lip School of Journalism."
(c) The "Elevated Eyebrow School of Journalism."
(d) The "Depressed Eyebrow School of Journalism."

14. What year were Dorothy's parents married?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1885.

15. In 1917, what significant event happened in Dorothy's career?
(a) She was made an editor at Vogue.
(b) She was made an editor at American Magazine.
(c) She moved from Vogue to Vanity Fair.
(d) She was fired.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What trait did Dorothy develop despite her loneliness?

3. What style of writing did Dorothy start to exhibit after 1923?

4. Whose court case did Dorothy get involved with that started her interest in being involved in a cause?

5. What was Dorothy's play renamed?

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