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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. Who was Ahmet?

2. What did Denny Cordell offer Marianne Faithfull?

3. How does Faithfull characterize Dylan's life when they met up?

4. How does Faithfull characterize Soho society in the early 1970s?

5. Why did Jagger stop inviting Faithfull to dine out with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Faithfull's dream about Mick Jagger.

2. What was Marianne Faithfull's mother's response to her overdose?

3. What split Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull up in the 1970s?

4. How did Marianne Faithfull get back into making music?

5. Describe Marianne Faithfull's domestic life with Mick Jagger.

6. What ended the relationship between Marianne Faithfull and Ben Brierly?

7. Contrast this visit with the last previous visit between Faithfull and Dylan.

8. Describe Marianne Faithfull's lifestyle in Soho.

9. How does Faithfull characterize 'Let it Bleed'?

10. Describe Faithfull's mother's feelings about art.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Faithfull's most important work? Was it a song, an album, or a work of a different kind?

Essay Topic 2

The 1960s seem to be making a perpetual resurgence in contemporary culture. How are the 1960s Faithfull presents different from the 1960s people now seem to believe in?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize Marianne Faithfull's relationship with herself and her early years? How does her writing describe an old self, a young self, and a relationship between them?

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