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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Sedgwick children believed that their father, Francis, carried shame for not entering which occupation?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Law.
(c) Business.
(d) Banking.

3. What sport did Francis insist his son Minty play?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Tennis.

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

5. What boarding school did Edie go to at the age of thirteen?
(a) West Nottingham Academy.
(b) Salem Academy.
(c) Katharine Branson.
(d) Linden Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Saucie feel about Edie?

2. What was Francis Sedgwick well known for being obsessive about?

3. What were many of the artworks Francis created inspired by?

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

5. What did Edie have nightmares about while she was at boarding school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Francis Sedgwick develop an interest in art?

2. What was Francis's response when Groton decided to start admitting black students?

3. What story is provided as an example of the amount of pressure Francis put upon his children?

4. How did Edie behave at St. Timothy's school?

5. What does Stein begin book her book, Edie: An American Biography by describing to the reader?

6. What experiences did Edie have in psychiatric hospitals?

7. What impression does Jane Wilson share about Edie as a child?

8. How did life change for the Sedgwicks when they moved to their third ranch, Rancho la Laguna de San Francisco?

9. How did the Sedgwick-Minturn legacy begin?

10. What does Saucie recall about her rebelliousness as a young woman?

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