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

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

3. What does Lillian Preston’s photo of the Times Square recruit indicate her interest in, according to Samantha?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sam Decker.
(d) Innocence.

4. What is the photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?
(a) Cancer treatment.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Heroin addiction.
(d) Alcoholism.

5. When was the first photo in the exhibition taken?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lillian move after her apartment with Patty?

2. What church does Patricia Stokes say Lillian Preston worshipped in?

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

4. Who is the narrator of the exhibition catalog that comprises the novel?

5. What choice did Lillian Preston give her daughter in regard to the photos in the Samantha series?

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