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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 kind of attitude does Saucie say Edie had developed by the time she was a young woman?
(a) Self-righteous.
(b) Onsessive.
(c) Entitled.
(d) Carefree.

2. What year did Edie begin attending St. Timothy's school?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1958.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While staying at Bloomingdale hospital, what did Edie do while out on a visitor's pass?

2. What was the likely reason for Francis Sedgwick's rejection to join the military?

3. In what year was Edie Sedgwick born?

4. Where did Theodore Sedgwick live?

5. Who was Jane Wilson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason is given for the number of children Francis and Alice had together?

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

3. How many siblings did Edie Sedgwick have?

4. What experiences did Edie have in psychiatric hospitals?

5. What is the intended purpose of the circular burial of Sedgwicks around Judge's Theodore Sedgwick's tomb?

6. What does the author tell us about Edie's father, Francis Minturn Sedgwick?

7. What does the author describe as Judge Theodore Sedgwick's accomplishments?

8. Who did Edie keep in her company when she moved to Cambridge in 1963?

9. Who is the first Sedgwick on record?

10. How did the Sedgwick-Minturn legacy begin?

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