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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which musician did Edie meet around the time she moved into her own apartment?

2. Which room of Warhol's apartment did Bill Name occupy?

3. Why do people believe Andy Warhol was so fascinated with Edie?

4. Edie had an unsuccessful audition for a play by which playwright?

5. How did Andy Warhol feel when meeting Francis Sedgwick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Edie say about her apartment fire?

2. What successes did Edie find in modeling after her relationship with Warhol ended?

3. What types of people could be found at The Factory?

4. What was it like on the set of Ciao! Manhattan?

5. After Edie became a member of Warhol's entourage, what did people begin to question about her?

6. What alarmed Leonard Cohen when he met Edie?

7. How did Warhol's people go about teaching Edie a lesson for questioning his scripts?

8. What was Alice Sedgwick's concern for her son Bobby?

9. How did Edie meet Andy Warhol?

10. What were "vitamin shots"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss drugs in Edie, An American Biography. How did Edie's drug use affect her life? Discuss drug culture in the 1960s and how it differs from today.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Edie's parents and her relationship with them. Describe Francis Sedgwick. What was his relationship like with his children? Was he to blame for their psychological problems? Why or why not? Describe Alice Sedgwick. What was her relationship like with her children? How did she deal with her husband's infidelities?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Edie's teen years. Describe her experiences at Katharine Branson and St. Timothy's. Describe her experiences at Silver Hill and Bloomingdale. What events shaped her teenage years?

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