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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Dorothy's most common pseudonym?
(a) Constant Reader.
(b) Constant Writer.
(c) Constant Listener.
(d) Constant Drinker.

3. What kind of effect did Dr. Barach have on Dorothy's relationship with the Round Tablers?
(a) She started to withdraw from the group.
(b) She joined the Round Tablers and another group together.
(c) She dove even deeper into her relationships with the members.
(d) She withdrew from the group completely.

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

5. How did Dorothy make it through the holidays of 1922?
(a) She went to visit her sister.
(b) She drank so much she wound up in the hospital.
(c) She went to a seaside resort.
(d) She obsessively contemplated suicide.

6. Why did Eddie encourage Dorothy's habit?
(a) Because he liked the attention she created while they were out.
(b) Because it lessened how much she vocalized her distaste for Eddies drinking.
(c) Because it made him feel less guilty about his bad habits.
(d) Because he liked having her along.

7. When did Dorothy's grandparents move to New York City?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

8. What was the nickname of the editor of Vanity Fair Magazine?
(a) "Crownie."
(b) "Boss."
(c) He had no nickname.
(d) "Big Cheese."

9. Why didn't the Round Tablers think Dorothy was serious?
(a) Because she told them all about her plans beforehand.
(b) Because she wasn't successful.
(c) Because she ordered dinner first.
(d) Because she left the door open to her room.

10. What did Eddie do for a living?
(a) He was a farmer.
(b) He was a dentist.
(c) He was a stockbroker.
(d) He was a lawyer.

11. How many times was "Enough Rope", Dorothy's book of poetry, printed?
(a) One time.
(b) Four times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Two times.

12. What was Ernest Hemingway's secret to the craft of writing?
(a) Only work under the influence of elite society.
(b) Only work when drunk.
(c) Work when you feel like it.
(d) Work like a dog.

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

14. Whose court case did Dorothy get involved with that started her interest in being involved in a cause?
(a) Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Johnny Lazia.
(b) Nicola Sacco and Joe Damico.
(c) Johnny Lazia and Joe Damico.
(d) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

15. When did Eddie actually leave after threatening several times?
(a) After Labor Day 1922.
(b) After July 4th, 1922.
(c) Before Memorial Day 1922.
(d) Before July 4th, 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Franklin Pierce Adams marry on May 9th, 1925?

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

3. Who did Dorothy begin to see after she broke off romantically from Seward?

4. What position at Vogue did Dorothy acquire after some time?

5. Where were Dorothy's grandparents from?

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