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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Gabrielle Ladd?
(a) Edie's friend.
(b) Edie's tutor.
(c) Alice's sister.
(d) The woman Babbo married.

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

3. What artistic vocation did Francis Sedgwick devote himself to?
(a) Painting.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Interior design.

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

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

6. How many children did Henry Dwight Sedgwick and Sarah May Minturn have?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

7. While speaking about her family's life in California, what term does Saucie use to describe her parents?
(a) European wannabes.
(b) Traditionalists.
(c) Renaissance people.
(d) Beatniks.

8. What is the location where Theodore Sedgwick is buried referred to as?
(a) The Sedgwick resting place.
(b) A Sedgwick pie.
(c) The Sedgwick circle.
(d) The Sedgwick plot.

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

10. In what position did the first Sedgewick on record serve in the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Governor.
(c) Major General.
(d) Lieutenant.

11. Which of the following was one of Francis Minturn Sedgewick's nicknames?
(a) Fuzzy.
(b) Finty.
(c) Frannie.
(d) Frankie.

12. Which of Edie's brother developed problems with alcohol and drugs?
(a) Minty.
(b) Harold.
(c) George.
(d) Bert.

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

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

15. What example does Saucie use to illustrate her feeling that Edie got everything she wanted?
(a) Edie being allowed to drive her father's Mercedes.
(b) Edie having access to her father's bank account.
(c) Edie being able to decide what school she attended.
(d) Edie being given a pony.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Sedgwicks permanently move to California?

2. What is Babbo Sedgwick said to have liked to read?

3. What boarding school did Edie go to at the age of thirteen?

4. In the 1930s, where was the Sedgwicks Long Island home located?

5. What disease did Edie suffer from which led to her being taken out of boarding school?

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