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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 occasion does the narrator give for commenting on Lillian Preston’s life and work?
(a) An obituary.
(b) A blurb request for a book.
(c) A museum exhibit.
(d) A biography.

2. What does Deborah say Lillian’s economic situation was?
(a) She was always calling her parents for bailouts.
(b) She was making good money.
(c) She was putting money away.
(d) She was always borrowing money for food.

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

4. What does Patricia Stokes say exasperated her about Lillian?
(a) Her loose friends.
(b) Her perpetual poverty.
(c) The darkroom in the bathroom.
(d) Her drug use.

5. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?
(a) Lyonel Tsaregorodcev
(b) Nina Pagano.
(c) Lillian Preston.
(d) Sam Decker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of photography does the narrator say Lillian Preston is?

2. How does Patricia Stokes characterize living with Lillian?

3. What was Lillian doing for money while she lived downstairs from Deborah?

4. What was Katherine House?

5. What is the photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?

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