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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catalog items 92-102, pages 237-270.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect would the image of Mommy is Sick have on the narrator?
(a) It would make her want to make meaningful art.
(b) It would make her want to do good work.
(c) It would make her feel better when life was hard.
(d) It would make her want to find people to help.

2. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?
(a) Lillian Preston’s parents.
(b) Sam Decker and Lillian Preston among others.
(c) Lillian Preston.
(d) Sam Decker.

3. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?
(a) Her mother rewarded her for remaining unclothed in summer.
(b) Her mother never asked her to take off her clothes.
(c) Her mother snuck up on her when she did not think she was being watched.
(d) Her mother begged her to pose nude for her.

4. Who is the narrator of the exhibition catalog that comprises the novel?
(a) Sam Decker.
(b) Lillian Preston.
(c) Samantha Preston.
(d) Franny Panic.

5. How did Lillian seem to Samantha when Samantha returned from Cleveland?
(a) Old and unhealthy.
(b) Wiry and tenacious.
(c) Invincible.
(d) Small and frail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?

2. What emotion did Lillian’s face show, when Ken asked her to move to Brooklyn with him?

3. What did Samantha want from Lillian, after they moved in with Grete and Kaja?

4. How old was Samantha when her grandparents got in touch with Lillian?

5. What was it that got Lillian to go to the doctor for a diagnosis?

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