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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did Lillian want from Dorothy more than anything?
(a) For Dorothy to write a play about her.
(b) For Dorothy not to talk badly about her behind her back.
(c) For Dorothy to write a poem about her.
(d) For Dorothy to trade her husbands.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the other "most sought-after" women of 1932?

2. What was the second cause Dorothy becomes involved in during 1936?

3. What group did Dorothy co-found in 1936?

4. In 1937, what did Dorothy and Alan do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What realizations did Dorothy come to after Benchley's death?

2. While traveling to Europe after her dog, Robinson, passed, who did Dorothy connect with? What other event happened while Dorothy and Mary were in transit? Why did she feel a connection to this woman and what did she end up doing that greatly affected Dorthy?

3. What about Dorothy and Alan's relationship changed after Alan went to basic training?

4. What significant event happened to Dorothy's relationship with Robert Benchley in 1937?

5. What was so controversial about Dorothy's pregnancy? What was unique about her reaction to her miscarriage?

6. What about working in Hollywood did Dorothy find relieving?

7. What brought Dorothy to California for again? How did she feel about going back?

8. After Dorothy's second miscarriage, how did she cope?

9. Dorothy was advised to write a will, though her assets were modest. Who did Dorothy leave her estate to? What all did her estate include?

10. What did Dorothy seek more than anything during the later years of her life?

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