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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catalog items 82-91, pages 206-237.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was it that made Lillian sad for Manhattan, once she moved to Brooklyn?
(a) The parks.
(b) The slower traffic.
(c) The children.
(d) The trees.

4. Where does Grete’s art come from?
(a) Religion.
(b) Depression.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Boredom.

5. What barrier did the group Nina hung around with in college want to break down?
(a) Between performance and memory.
(b) Between gallery and market.
(c) Between representation and reality.
(d) Between art and viewer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game would Samantha and Nina play on weekends after Lillian’s arrest?

2. What was the main consequence of the court verdict for Samantha?

3. What ethnic group is the majority where Lillian moves in downstairs with Deborah?

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

5. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?

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