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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catalog items 28-39, pages 60-88.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Lillian Preston’s parents expect her to go to school?
(a) Cleveland Teachers College.
(b) Ursaline College.
(c) The New School.
(d) Northwestern.

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

3. How does Deborah characterize Lillian’s skills in the darkroom?
(a) She calls her a philosopher.
(b) She calls her a technician.
(c) She calls her a conjurer.
(d) She calls her a mathematician.

4. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s expression in her self-portrait at nine weeks?
(a) Defeated.
(b) Content.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Exhausted.

5. What was Katherine House?
(a) A Catholic rooming house.
(b) A school for wayward girls.
(c) A photography school.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Deborah recall her time living with Lillian?

2. Where did Deborah get Lillian a typing job?

3. How regularly did Lillian take self-portraits after 18 weeks?

4. How does the “Eyes on Photography” article characterize Lillian’s photography?

5. What does Patricia Stokes say was the price for Lilly’s immense talent?

(see the answer key)

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