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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Samantha characterize her feelings on meeting her grandparents?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Ashamed.

2. What is the Ro-ro?
(a) A toy robot.
(b) A robot camera.
(c) A toy raccoon.
(d) A song.

3. How does Patricia Stokes characterize living with Lillian?
(a) A hospitable home.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Coziness.
(d) Squalor.

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

5. Where did Kenneth live?
(a) In Astoria.
(b) In Brooklyn.
(c) In Washington Heights.
(d) In the Fifties.

6. What caused Lillian to pass by the Lacuna gallery every day?
(a) Samantha’s new school.
(b) Her new restaurant job.
(c) Her new typing job.
(d) The route to Grete and Kaja’s house.

7. How much money did Lillian have to raise to pay for the abortion?
(a) $500.
(b) $250.
(c) $150.
(d) $1,000.

8. How old was Samantha when Ken started to want kids of his own with Lillian?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

9. What did Charles Roberts do to get Lillian’s attention?
(a) Take excellent photographs.
(b) Praise her work.
(c) Walk out of class.
(d) Inherit a lot of money.

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

11. What does Patricia Stokes say exasperated her about Lillian?
(a) The darkroom in the bathroom.
(b) Her loose friends.
(c) Her drug use.
(d) Her perpetual poverty.

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

13. What is Grete’s ethnicity?
(a) Belgian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Swedish.
(d) German.

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

15. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?
(a) Beating a rug with a stick.
(b) Making cookies.
(c) Watching a baseball game.
(d) Playing stickball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month was Samantha born in?

2. About how many photographs did Lillian take every day?

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

4. For what did Lillian use the money she got from her mother?

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

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