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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the incriminating play that featured a character similar to Dorothy that debuted in 1934?
(a) Merrily We Roll Along.
(b) A Wisecracking Woman.
(c) An Alcoholic Woman.
(d) Sing We Now.

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

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

4. What saved George Kaufman, the writer of the incriminating play, from Dorothy's wrath?
(a) Dorothy was in rehab at the time of its opening.
(b) The 1600-mile "buffer zone."
(c) Dorothy was shielded from the reviews.
(d) Alan took her on vacation.

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

6. What happened across the country in 1933?
(a) Prohibition was repealed.
(b) World War I ended.
(c) The stock market crashed.
(d) Socialist ideas were widespread.

7. Dorothy had enough of the filth of living with roommates and moved where?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) With Kate d'Usseau.
(c) The Algonquin.
(d) The Volney.

8. What cause did Dorothy feel the need to get involved in?
(a) The Third Reich's youth group.
(b) The Third Reich's persecution of the Jews.
(c) The Screen Actors Guild.
(d) The Communist Propaganda.

9. What did the studios give to Dorothy and Alan that suit them perfectly?
(a) Scripts that were considered inappropriate.
(b) Scripts that were doomed to fail.
(c) Scripts that required no work.
(d) Scripts that no one else could make work.

10. What did Alan have installed in the house that he saw in a movie?
(a) A trap door behind a false bookcase.
(b) A trap door under a false fireplace.
(c) A trap door under a statue.
(d) A trap door behind a false fireplace.

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

12. Why did most of the writers from the East Coast end up in Hollywood?
(a) The salaries were exorbitant.
(b) The beach.
(c) The weather.
(d) The working conditions were better.

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

14. In 1946, what did Dorothy do about her relationship with Alan?
(a) She reconciled with him.
(b) She had an affair with even younger men to spite him.
(c) She moved overseas to be with him.
(d) She announced her intent to divorce him.

15. When her relationship with John McCain ended, how did Dorothy try to kill herself?
(a) Anti-depressants.
(b) Anti-psychotics.
(c) Barbituates.
(d) Narcotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dorothy discover when she was 43?

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

3. Who fulfilled Dorothy's maternal need?

4. What was considered risque behavior that Dorothy and Alan participated in?

5. Who did Dorothy turn to when Alan left?

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