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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Lillian say she feels when she is not taking photographs?
(a) Like she is treading molasses.
(b) Like she is waiting for something.
(c) Like she is trapped.
(d) Like she is on parole.

3. What emotion did Lillian’s face show, when Ken asked her to move to Brooklyn with him?
(a) Joy.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Resignation.
(d) Gratitude.

4. How many images were in the Samantha series?
(a) 48.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 32

5. What does Samantha say Lillian’s pictures prepared her for?
(a) Coming to terms with death.
(b) Accepting rejection.
(c) Seeing the core of people in the real world.
(d) Seeing how other people see the world.

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

7. From what age does Samantha say she was functionally independent?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

8. What does Samantha say Item #60, Hands, resembles?
(a) The Sistine Chapel ceiling.
(b) The Girl with the Pearl Earring.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) The Last Supper.

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

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

11. Where did Lillian go for the abortion?
(a) The West Village.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

13. How old was Samantha when her grandparents got in touch with Lillian?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Samantha characterize her feelings on meeting her grandparents?

3. What kind of publication was Deborah putting together?

4. Where did Grete take Kaja and Samantha to get them out of the house while Lillian was feeling ill after the abortion?

5. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?

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