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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(d) Prohibition was repealed.

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

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

4. What did Dorothy buy in London?
(a) A Dandie Dinmont Terrior named Timothy.
(b) A Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Princess.
(c) A Miniature Teacup Poodle named Fancy.
(d) A Yorkshire Terrier named Tandy.

5. After her trip to Mexico, where did Dorothy return?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

6. What changed Dorothy's plans?
(a) The Murphey's invited her to Rome.
(b) The Murpheys invited her to the Swiss Alps.
(c) Benchley invited her to Bath.
(d) Benchley invited her to Venice.

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

8. What were the Screen Playwrights able to do in 1938?
(a) Recruit more members.
(b) Unionize.
(c) Publicize their cause.
(d) Disband.

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

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

11. Who did Alan replace in Dorothy's life?
(a) Robert Sherwood.
(b) Her Mother.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Robert Benchley.

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

13. Who did Dorothy meet at the National Institute of Arts and Letters banquet?
(a) Elizabeth Ames.
(b) Leah Salisbury.
(c) Arnold Gingrich.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What saved George Kaufman, the writer of the incriminating play, from Dorothy's wrath?

2. To survive, financially, what did Dorthy do?

3. What movie earned Dorothy an Academy Award Nomination?

4. What skill did Alan possess that Dorothy did not?

5. Who did Dorothy turn to when Alan left?

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