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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) An Alcoholic Woman.
(b) Merrily We Roll Along.
(c) Sing We Now.
(d) A Wisecracking Woman.

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

3. Who was Dorothy's personal hero?
(a) Dashiell Hammett.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Moss Hart.
(d) Lillian Hellman.

4. 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 Communist Propaganda.
(d) The Screen Actors Guild.

5. How old was Dorothy when she took the teaching job?
(a) Over 70.
(b) Almost 75.
(c) Almost 72.
(d) Almost 70.

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

7. What group did Dorothy co-found in 1936?
(a) The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.
(b) The Hollywood Screen Actor's Guild.
(c) The Hollywood Screen Writer's Guild.
(d) The Hollywood Anti-Communist League.

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

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

10. In 1967 Marcella Cisney asked Dorothy's permission to do what?
(a) Produce A Dorothy Parker Portfolio.
(b) Produce Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?
(c) Produce A Dorothy Parker Memoir.
(d) Produce A Dorothy Parker Autobiography.

11. When did Dorothy and Alan get married?
(a) June 8, 1934.
(b) June 18, 1934.
(c) July 8, 1934.
(d) June 28, 1934.

12. How did Dorothy try to commit suicide after she realized how far behind her novel, "Sonnets to a Suicide", is?
(a) Jumping into the Seine.
(b) Pain killer overdose.
(c) Drinking a bottle of shoe polish.
(d) Standing on train tracks.

13. How long was Dorothy's obituary in the New York Times?
(a) Twenty paragraphs.
(b) Two paragraphs.
(c) Ten pages.
(d) Two pages.

14. After 20 years, what did Dorothy feel she had enough energy to do?
(a) Make a date at the Algonquin to meet friends.
(b) Go shopping.
(c) Write her memoirs.
(d) Be in society.

15. After receiving a telegram from John Garrett, what did Dorothy consider?
(a) Going home to New York.
(b) Suicide by drowning in the Seine.
(c) Accepting his marriage proposal.
(d) Suicide by jumping off the balcony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Dorothy and Alan move to in California?

2. What changed Dorothy's plans?

3. What did Lillian want from Dorothy more than anything?

4. Dorothy donated money to several causes during 1936. What about donating the money never occurred to her?

5. What did Alan do the day he passed away?

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