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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family did Dorothy visit while in Antibes?
(a) The Oppenheimers.
(b) The Murpheys.
(c) The Fitzgeralds.
(d) The Hemingways.

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

3. What did Dorothy and Alan apply for instead of working?
(a) Retirement Fund of the Screen Actors Guild.
(b) The Screen Writers Guild retirement fund.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) The Guild of the Unemployed Screen Writers.

4. How many times was Valencia bombed while Dorothy and Alan were in Spain?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. Where was Alan stationed after being shipped overseas?
(a) Italy.
(b) London.
(c) Spain.
(d) Paris.

6. What was Robinson attacked by?
(a) Another small dog.
(b) A large dog.
(c) A snake.
(d) A pack of larger dogs.

7. On what day did Dorothy pass away?
(a) June 21st.
(b) June 17th.
(c) June 7th.
(d) June 6th.

8. What did Dorothy discover when she was 43?
(a) That her mother-in-law didn't like her.
(b) That she was pregnant.
(c) That she had sibling's she'd never met.
(d) That her husband was only with her for money.

9. What award did Dorothy receive in 1958?
(a) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) The Marjorie Peabody Waite Award.
(c) The Academy Award.
(d) The Esquire Award.

10. Why didn't Dorothy want to go to the Yaddo, a 400-acre retreat for artists?
(a) Her family wasn't allowed to visit.
(b) Her friends weren't allowed to visit.
(c) She couldn't bring her dog.
(d) She wasn't allowed to drink there.

11. How old did Dorothy turn in 1933?
(a) 45.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

12. Dorothy and Alan did something shocking three months after she returned from Mexico. What was that?
(a) They remarried.
(b) They sold the house in Pennsylvania.
(c) They returned to California.
(d) They returned to Mexico.

13. What did Dorothy die of?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Cereberal hemorrhage.
(c) She fell after drinking too much.
(d) Overdose.

14. What did Dorothy do to all the work she created while in Paris?
(a) She tore it up.
(b) It got lost in a housefire.
(c) She saved it to submit when she got back to the city.
(d) She lost it all when her satchel was stolen.

15. How many columns did Dorothy end up writing for Esquire?
(a) 46.
(b) 52.
(c) 53.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1946, what did Dorothy do about her relationship with Alan?

2. To what group did Dorothy get elected to the board of in 1938?

3. How did Dorothy try to commit suicide after she realized how far behind her novel, "Sonnets to a Suicide", is?

4. After her trip to Mexico, where did Dorothy return?

5. When did Dorothy and Alan get married?

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