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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the book, Edie: An American Biography who helps to tell the story of the Sedgwick ancestors?
(a) The media.
(b) College professors.
(c) Sedgwick family members.
(d) 1960s historians.

2. What adorns Theodore Sedgwick's grave?
(a) An obelisk.
(b) A cross.
(c) A bird bath.
(d) An alpha and an omega symbol.

3. In what year did Francis Sedgwick marry?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1929.

4. Who did Francis Minturn Sedgwick marry?
(a) Alice Hepburn.
(b) Alice Vanderbilt.
(c) Alice Delano de Forest.
(d) Alice Davenport.

5. Which event is Theodore Sedgewick said to have been intimately involved with?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Henry Dwight Sedgwick and Sarah May Minturn have?

2. Which of the following was one of Francis Minturn Sedgewick's nicknames?

3. What was Henry Dwight Sedgwick's nickname?

4. What was Edie Sedgwick's full first name?

5. What event prompted Francis Minturn Sedgwick to have a nervous breakdown?

(see the answer key)

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