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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Greenwich Village 1953-1954. Catalog items 10-18; Lower East Side, Catalog items 19-27, pages 24-59.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice did Lillian Preston give her daughter in regard to the photos in the Samantha series?
(a) To defend them or burn them.
(b) To sell them or sequester them.
(c) To exhibit them or destroy them.
(d) To get rich from them or exhibit them privately only.

2. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?
(a) Rare vistas.
(b) Intimate visions.
(c) Unexpected moments.
(d) People’s true faces.

3. Who is narrating the novel in the beginning?
(a) Franny Panic.
(b) Samantha Preston.
(c) Lillian Preston.
(d) Sam Decker.

4. When does the narrator say Lillian Preston stopped showing photos?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1982.

5. How many images were in the Samantha series?
(a) 8.
(b) 48.
(c) 32
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lillian Preston’s photo of the Times Square recruit indicate her interest in, according to Samantha?

2. Where did Lillian Preston’s parents expect her to go to school?

3. How does Patricia Stokes characterize living with Lillian?

4. What does Samantha say Lillian’s pictures prepared her for?

5. What effect would the image of Mommy is Sick have on the narrator?

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