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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Haughtiness.
(b) Despair.
(c) Self-doubt.
(d) Envy.

3. How does Samantha characterize the nature of the trip to her parents’ house?
(a) They fought bitterly and did not resolve anything.
(b) They reminisced about Lillian’s childhood as if nothing had happened.
(c) They avoided all hard conversations.
(d) They said all the hard words they needed to say.

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

5. Where did the narrator see the words “Mommy is sick” in the beginning of the novel?
(a) An art gallery.
(b) A newspaper headline.
(c) A protest poster.
(d) A museum.

6. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?
(a) People’s true faces.
(b) Unexpected moments.
(c) Intimate visions.
(d) Rare vistas.

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

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

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

10. What kind of photography does the narrator say Lillian Preston is?
(a) Street photographer.
(b) Landscape photographer.
(c) Portrait photographer.
(d) Nude photographer.

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

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

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

14. How did Lillian’s parents finally get in touch with her and Samantha?
(a) Lillian called after the abortion.
(b) Grete gave them her number.
(c) Samantha found the number and called.
(d) They hired a detective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?

2. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?

3. What did Ken start to do when Lillian would not have a child with him?

4. Who accompanied Lillian to the hospital when she was ready to give birth?

5. What is the photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?

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