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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could Samantha not interview John Bosco for the exhibition catalog?
(a) She could not find him.
(b) He died.
(c) He did not want to be interviewed.
(d) Lillian made her promise not to contact him.

2. How did Samantha respond to Lillian’s news that they were going to move out of Ken’s house?
(a) With relief.
(b) With fury.
(c) With sorrow.
(d) With numbness.

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

4. Who accompanied Lillian to the hospital when she was ready to give birth?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Her father.
(d) Patty.

5. How does Lillian say that the man treated her when he performed the abortion?
(a) Roughly.
(b) Kindly.
(c) Condescendingly.
(d) Indifferently.

6. Where did Kaja’s father live, that she would visit him every weekend?
(a) Washington Heights.
(b) Kew Gardens.
(c) Harlem.
(d) The West Village.

7. What led Lillian to start using pills?
(a) Depression.
(b) Preparing for her first show.
(c) An injury.
(d) An illness.

8. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?
(a) Sam Decker.
(b) Sam Decker and Lillian Preston among others.
(c) Lillian Preston.
(d) Lillian Preston’s parents.

9. What did Samantha want from Lillian, after they moved in with Grete and Kaja?
(a) To talk to her real father.
(b) To live by herself.
(c) To live with her grandparents.
(d) To move back in with Ken.

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

11. 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?
(a) Envy.
(b) Haughtiness.
(c) Self-doubt.
(d) Despair.

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

13. Who is narrating the novel in the beginning?
(a) Lillian Preston.
(b) Sam Decker.
(c) Franny Panic.
(d) Samantha Preston.

14. What does Lillian Preston’s photo of the Times Square recruit indicate her interest in, according to Samantha?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sam Decker.
(d) Innocence.

15. What role does Lillian say Nina’s friendship occupied in her life?
(a) Aunt.
(b) Little sister.
(c) Mother.
(d) Big sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lillian characterize Mr. Janovic?

2. Where did Lillian go for the abortion?

3. What kind of photography does the narrator say Lillian Preston is?

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

5. What was Lillian doing for money while she lived downstairs from Deborah?

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