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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Theodore Sedgwick live?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Atlanta.

4. In the 1930s, where was the Sedgwicks Long Island home located?
(a) Suffolk.
(b) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Queens.

5. While staying at Bloomingdale hospital, what did Edie do while out on a visitor's pass?
(a) She stole a car.
(b) She got married.
(c) She got an abortion.
(d) She tried to run away.

6. Who did Saucie think was the prettiest of her sisters?
(a) Edie.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Pamela.
(d) Susanna.

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

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

9. How many acres was the new property that the Sedgwicks bought in the 1950s?
(a) 25 acres.
(b) 100 acres.
(c) 6000 acres.
(d) 500 acres.

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

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

12. What was Edie Sedgwick's full first name?
(a) Edwina.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Evelyn.
(d) Edith.

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

14. What was the likely reason for Francis Sedgwick's rejection to join the military?
(a) Clubfoot.
(b) Poor eyesight.
(c) Bronchial asthma.
(d) Psychological imbalance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Edie begin attending St. Timothy's school?

2. What state was St. Timothy's school in?

3. Why are Sedgwicks buried in the particular formation they are around Theodore Sedgwick?

4. What did Edie intend to study in Cambridge when she moved there in 1963?

5. In which European city did Edie and Francis have a fight in a hotel room?

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