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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Katherine House?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A Catholic rooming house.
(c) A school for wayward girls.
(d) A photography school.

2. What has happened to the Christmas tree in Item #59, Christmas tree?
(a) It has been decorated.
(b) It has been set on fire.
(c) It has been tipped over.
(d) It has been left on the curb.

3. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s expression in her self-portrait at nine weeks?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Defeated.
(c) Content.
(d) Exhausted.

4. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s appearance later in her pregnancy?
(a) Soft and anxious.
(b) Depressed and afraid.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Radiant and calm.

5. Why did Lillian stop photographing outside?
(a) Samantha would fuss.
(b) She was tired all the time.
(c) A prolonged period of rain
(d) The weather turned cold.

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

7. When was the first photo in the exhibition taken?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1984.

8. What did Lillian install in the house when she stopped photographing outside?
(a) Heavy blinds.
(b) Decorative lamps.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) 500-watt light bulbs.

9. What was Lillian doing for money while she lived downstairs from Deborah?
(a) Waiting tables.
(b) Typing.
(c) Selling her photos.
(d) Journalism.

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

11. How many weeks along was Lillian, when she realized she was pregnant?
(a) 22.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

12. Which gallery did Gabriel Wythe run?
(a) Hudson Park library.
(b) Aperçu.
(c) Lacuna.
(d) The White Gallery.

13. What did Ken tell Lillian about the house he took her to see?
(a) That he had bought it.
(b) That he was going to house sit there.
(c) That he wanted to give it to her.
(d) That it was his family’s house.

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

15. What ethnic group is the majority where Lillian moves in downstairs with Deborah?
(a) Russian.
(b) Polish.
(c) Indian.
(d) Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ken want when he called Samantha and Lillian at Grete and Kaja’s place?

2. How does Lillian say she feels when she is not taking photographs?

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

4. Who is the narrator of the exhibition catalog that comprises the novel?

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

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