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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the house called that Alan and Dorothy purchase?
(a) River House.
(b) Fox House.
(c) Meadow House.
(d) Revolutionary House.

5. Who did Dorothy turn to when Alan left?
(a) Her family.
(b) The Fitzgeralds.
(c) The Murphys.
(d) The Benchley's.

6. Dorothy donated money to several causes during 1936. What about donating the money never occurred to her?
(a) Follow up with the groups.
(b) Do research on the causes.
(c) File the donations on her taxes.
(d) Ask questions about the origins of the groups or how the money was spent.

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

8. Who was the other "most sought-after" women of 1932?
(a) Zelda Fitzgerald.
(b) Fanny Brice.
(c) Sarah Murphy.
(d) Mary Mooney.

9. Alan and Dorothy felt that they couldn't lay down roots in Hollywood. Where did they buy a house to do just that?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Vermont.

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

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

12. To survive, financially, what did Dorthy do?
(a) She moved to her sister's house.
(b) She published work she was ashamed of.
(c) She wrote a book of comedy.
(d) She took on roommates.

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

14. What skill did Alan possess that Dorothy did not?
(a) Cooking skills.
(b) Decorating skills.
(c) Fashion sense.
(d) Home making skills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Dorothy meet in the winter of 1936 that caused her grief?

2. Where did Alan take Dorothy on their honeymoon?

3. Dorothy had enough of the filth of living with roommates and moved where?

4. On what day did Dorothy pass away?

5. What movie earned Dorothy an Academy Award Nomination?

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