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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 get rich from them or exhibit them privately only.
(c) To sell them or sequester them.
(d) To exhibit them or destroy them.

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

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

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

10. About how many photographs did Lillian take every day?
(a) 150.
(b) 30.
(c) 80.
(d) 50.

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

12. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?
(a) Lillian Preston.
(b) Nina Pagano.
(c) Sam Decker.
(d) Lyonel Tsaregorodcev

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

14. Where did Lillian move after her apartment with Patty?
(a) Lower East Side.
(b) Gramercy.
(c) Greenwich Village.
(d) Chelsea.

15. How does Lillian characterize Grete’s personality?
(a) Socialite.
(b) Workhorse.
(c) Dreamer.
(d) Straight talker.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How regularly did Lillian take self-portraits after 18 weeks?

4. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?

5. How many weeks along was Lillian, when she realized she was pregnant?

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