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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Park Slope, 1963-1970, Catalog items 71-81, pages 175-206.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Grete take Kaja and Samantha to get them out of the house while Lillian was feeling ill after the abortion?
(a) The circus.
(b) MoMA.
(c) Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(d) The park.

3. Where did Kenneth live?
(a) In the Fifties.
(b) In Washington Heights.
(c) In Astoria.
(d) In Brooklyn.

4. What was an unintended effect of Nina’s publicity drawing attention to her case?
(a) She exposed police corruption.
(b) She exposed the conditions in the jail, and it was closed.
(c) She won sympathy among the public for art photography.
(d) She drew attention to police misconduct.

5. How many boxes did Lillian Preston leave behind when she died?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 188.
(d) 42.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month was Samantha born in?

2. What kind of lawyer took Nina and Lillian’s case?

3. Why did Nina and Lillian spend three days in jail?

4. What does Samantha say Item #60, Hands, resembles?

5. What was it that scared Samantha after Lillian got out of jail?

(see the answer key)

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