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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. How did Gabriel Wythe characterize Lillian’s photographs?
(a) Thorny.
(b) Woven.
(c) Delicately constructed.
(d) Clear-headed.

2. How often does Samantha say Lillian spoke of jail after she was arrested?
(a) All the time.
(b) Infrequently.
(c) Only once.
(d) Only when things were hard.

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

4. Why was Samantha taken to the nurse, after news of the NY Supreme Court verdict came out?
(a) She fainted.
(b) She was beaten up by her classmates.
(c) She started crying uncontrollably.
(d) She was hyperventilating.

5. Why does Samantha say she hates the picture Mommy is Sick?
(a) She thinks it is obscene.
(b) She hates to see herself so naïve and subject to her mother’s whims.
(c) She hates seeing her own worry.
(d) She thinks it is pornographic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Grete’s art come from?

2. What did Ken start to do when Lillian would not have a child with him?

3. How does Samantha characterize the nature of the trip to her parents’ house?

4. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?

5. What occasion does the narrator give for commenting on Lillian Preston’s life and work?

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