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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Silver Hill?
(a) Edie's hometown.
(b) A psychiatric hospital.
(c) The Sedgwick's family home.
(d) A boarding school.

2. In the 1930s, the Sedgwicks divided their time between Long Island and which place?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Miami.
(d) Santa Barbara.

3. Which "first" is Theodore Sedgwick credited with?
(a) The first to fly a plane in combat.
(b) The first to sign The Declaration of Independence.
(c) The first to battle for a black woman's freedom in court.
(d) The first to climb Mt. Everest.

4. How did Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick get her nickname?
(a) She put large quantities of ketchup on her food.
(b) She was said to look like a sausage at birth.
(c) She always behaved seductively around men.
(d) Spaghetti was her favorite food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of attitude does Saucie say Edie had developed by the time she was a young woman?

2. Who was Jane Wilson?

3. How did the Sedgwick children feel about California?

4. Who encouraged Francis Sedgwick to develop his artistic side?

5. Who is the author of Edie: An American Biography?

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