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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Park Slope, 1961-1963, Catalog items 55-62, pages 122-149.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What caused Lillian to pass by the Lacuna gallery every day?
(a) Her new restaurant job.
(b) The route to Grete and Kaja’s house.
(c) Samantha’s new school.
(d) Her new typing job.

3. What did Lillian install in the house when she stopped photographing outside?
(a) Heavy blinds.
(b) Decorative lamps.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) 500-watt light bulbs.

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

5. How does Deborah recall her time living with Lillian?
(a) An in-between time.
(b) A golden age.
(c) A slog.
(d) A torment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?

2. How did Samantha respond to Lillian’s news that they were going to move out of Ken’s house?

3. Where did the narrator see the words “Mommy is sick” in the beginning of the novel?

4. What was it that made Lillian sad for Manhattan, once she moved to Brooklyn?

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

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