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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What job did Alan scheme to get for Dorothy?
(a) Professor of Written Arts at California State Colelge.
(b) English Professor at University of California.
(c) Professor of Written Arts at University of California.
(d) English Professor at California State College.

4. Within weeks of being in Spain, what cause did Dorothy get involved in?
(a) American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy.
(b) American Committee to Aid Spanish Diplomacy.
(c) American Committe to Aid Spanish Socialism.
(d) American Committee to Aid Spanish Hunger.

5. What did Alan do the day he passed away?
(a) He shopped for a wardrobe for Dorothy.
(b) He picked up his dry cleaning.
(c) He let the dog loose.
(d) He made a large dinner.

6. Where did Dorothy go twice a week to get drunk while in Paris?
(a) Moulin Rouge.
(b) Cannes.
(c) A bar by the Seine.
(d) A bordello in town.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. Where did Alan take Dorothy on their honeymoon?
(a) Paris.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) California.
(d) Mexico.

14. Who, of Dorothy's friends, was she most saddened to be distanced from?
(a) Robert Sherwood.
(b) John Garrett.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) Robert Benchley.

15. Who died in 1945 that was close to Dorothy?
(a) Robert Benchley.
(b) Her sister Helen.
(c) Robert Sherwood.
(d) Her brother Bert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the studios give to Dorothy and Alan that suit them perfectly?

2. What did Dorothy and Alan apply for instead of working?

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

4. Dorothy and Alan did something shocking three months after she returned from Mexico. What was that?

5. Why didn't Dorothy want to go to the Yaddo, a 400-acre retreat for artists?

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