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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 group did Nina party with during college?
(a) The Punks.
(b) The Essentialists.
(c) The Surrealists.
(d) The Vitalists.

2. What does Patricia Stokes say was the price for Lilly’s immense talent?
(a) Constant attention.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Perpetual fear.
(d) Drug use.

3. What church does Patricia Stokes say Lillian Preston worshipped in?
(a) The Church of Artistic Fate.
(b) The Church of the Frozen Image.
(c) The Catholic church.
(d) The Church of Street People.

4. How did Nina characterize Lillian’s work when she saw it?
(a) Perfection.
(b) The real deal.
(c) Raw material.
(d) Diamond in the rough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stromlin describe Lillian’s pictures in his review of the Lacuna exhibit?

2. Why did Samantha not recognize her mother when Lillian came to pick her up after school after getting out of jail?

3. What does Patricia Stokes say exasperated her about Lillian?

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

5. What emotion did Patty see in Lillian’s face when she did not give her the response she expected, to the praise for her work?

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