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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Dorothy's play opened, how was Dorothy described?
(a) "New York's Brightest Girl."
(b) "New York's Sharpest Tounge."
(c) "New York's Brightest Star."
(d) "New York's Biggest Joke."

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

3. Who was Dorothy's editor at Vogue?
(a) Carmel Snow.
(b) Kate Chopin.
(c) Cecil Peabody.
(d) Edna Wadman Chase.

4. 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 like a dog.
(d) Work when you feel like it.

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

6. Why did Dorothy like her new home?
(a) Because she always had hot water and someone to pick up after her.
(b) Because she had no domestic responsibilites.
(c) Because she had access to every speakeasy in the neighborhood.
(d) Because she had a maid.

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

8. Who helped Dorothy make up her mind to go live abroad?
(a) Robert Sherwood.
(b) Franklin Pierce Adams.
(c) Robert Benchley.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

9. Dorothy had only one requirement of the men who were constantly streaming through her life. What was that requirement?
(a) They paid her rent.
(b) They supplied her with clothes.
(c) They brought her gifts.
(d) They supplied her with scotch.

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

11. Why did Dorothy return home from Paris?
(a) She missed Benchley.
(b) She missed Seward Collins.
(c) She missed her sister.
(d) She grew tired of living abroad.

12. What did Dorothy feel obligated to do as part of her job in the editorial department at Vanity Fair?
(a) Reply to each writer personally.
(b) Consult her superior on every submission.
(c) Read each submission personally.
(d) Hand deliver acceptance letters to the writers.

13. What was Dorothy's first job with MGM?
(a) To write dialogue for Five O'clock Girl.
(b) To write dialogue for Too Much Rope.
(c) To write dialogue for Dynamite.
(d) To write dialogue for Madam X.

14. What, during the era of 1922-1923, did Dorothy discover that she found helped her?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Vacations.

15. What was the main problem with Dorothy's submissions to The New Yorker?
(a) They were published without her knowledge.
(b) They were written while under the influence of drugs and alcohol and are incriminating.
(c) She doesn't get paid.
(d) They were written with a pseudonym.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did Dorothy sell her first poem for?

3. Why did Dorothy fear Eddie's family wouldn't like her?

4. What historically significant event happened the same week Dorothy was fired?

5. What did the editor think of Dorothy's request for a job at Vanity Fair magazine?

(see the answer keys)

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