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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) Gay Guys.
(b) Nitroglycerin Queens.
(c) Dancing Queens.
(d) Harvard Homosexuals.

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

3. What adorns Theodore Sedgwick's grave?
(a) A bird bath.
(b) A cross.
(c) An obelisk.
(d) An alpha and an omega symbol.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Edie's brother developed problems with alcohol and drugs?

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

3. What did Edie start to get in trouble for doing while at St. Timothy's school?

4. What was the occupation of Edie's ancestor, Theodore Sedgewick?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Saucie's memories of living in the family's Goleta ranch?

2. Describe Judge Theodore Sedgwick's unusual burial site.

3. How did Francis feel about serving in the military during World War II?

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

5. Describe "Bobbo" Sedgwick.

6. What effect did oil money have on the Sedgwicks in the 1950s?

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

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

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

10. How many siblings did Edie Sedgwick have?

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