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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Saucie feel about Edie?
(a) She was worried about her.
(b) She loved her as a sister should.
(c) She disliked her heartily.
(d) She was in awe of her.

2. What disease did Edie suffer from which led to her being taken out of boarding school?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Alcohol addiction.

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

4. What did Edie have nightmares about while she was at boarding school?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Death.
(d) Her teachers.

5. In the Sedgwick family home, what was a "round up"?
(a) A hunting trip.
(b) A horse race.
(c) A night of board games.
(d) A picnic.

6. How did Minty die?
(a) He fell off a balcony.
(b) He committed suicide.
(c) He died of cancer.
(d) He drowned.

7. What is the first name of Francis Sedgwick's daughter who was nicknamed "Saucie"?
(a) Betty.
(b) Sandra.
(c) Alice.
(d) Melanie.

8. Which of the following is not one of Francis Sedgwick's daughters?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Pamela.
(d) Katharine.

9. How did the Sedgwick children feel about California?
(a) They missed the white Christmases.
(b) They were indifferent.
(c) They hated the heat.
(d) They thought it was paradise.

10. Who is the author of Edie: An American Biography?
(a) Katharine Branson.
(b) Jean Stein.
(c) Michael Post.
(d) Edie Sedgwick.

11. What was the name of the property the Sedgwicks bought during the Second World War?
(a) Corral de Quati.
(b) Sedgwick Manor.
(c) Rose Garden Estates.
(d) La Cali House.

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

13. What university did Francis Minturn Sedgewick attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what position must Sedgwicks be buried around Theodore Sedgwick?

2. What were the group of gays Edie fell in with at Harvard referred to as?

3. What did the Groton school decide to do which made Francis go berserk?

4. Who was Jane Wilson?

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

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