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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What preparatory boarding school did Francis Minturn Sedgewick attend?
(a) The Groton School.
(b) Windermere Academy.
(c) Cheshire Academy.
(d) The Forman School.

2. How did Francis attempt to have Saucie thrown out of Radcliffe?
(a) By refusing to pay her tuition.
(b) By sending a bodyguard to drag her out of classes.
(c) By hiring someone to plant drugs on her.
(d) By telling the dean she was promiscuous.

3. In the 1950s, what became increasingly prevalent near the Sedgwick property?
(a) Oil wells.
(b) Hi-rise apartments.
(c) Commercial buildings.
(d) Wolves.

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

5. What were the group of gays Edie fell in with at Harvard referred to as?
(a) Dancing Queens.
(b) Harvard Homosexuals.
(c) Nitroglycerin Queens.
(d) Gay Guys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edie had an unsuccessful audition for a play by which playwright?

2. In what year did Henry Dwight Sedgwick marry Sarah May Minturn?

3. Which "first" is Theodore Sedgwick credited with?

4. It is suggested that Bobby's behavior became more radical to distract his family from what?

5. In what year was Francis Minturn Sedgewick born?

(see the answer key)

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