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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lillian say she thought she was doing by taking the pictures she took?
(a) Making windows.
(b) Saving moments.
(c) Protecting her daughter.
(d) Revealing truths.

2. How does Samantha characterize her relationship with her mother’s work?
(a) Muse.
(b) Bystander.
(c) Collaborator.
(d) Victim.

3. Who paid Nina and Lillian’s bail?
(a) Nina’s father.
(b) Lillian’s father.
(c) Grete.
(d) Kenneth.

4. What was it that scared Samantha after Lillian got out of jail?
(a) She was listless and indifferent to everything.
(b) She no longer looked around for pictures to take.
(c) She no longer spoke.
(d) She was edgy and nervous all the time.

5. Why did Grete ask Lillian to leave her house for her reaction to her 20-foot shroud?
(a) Lillian wanted to buy it.
(b) Lillian only talked about herself.
(c) Lillian saw it as art.
(d) Lillian looked at its flaws.

6. What act of devotion does Samantha say her grandmother performed for Lillian?
(a) Telling her grandfather stories and hiding things to keep him and Lillian on good terms.
(b) Going into debt to buy things for her and Samantha.
(c) Sending her money she never spoke about.
(d) Taking care of her boxes of contact sheets and prints for years.

7. What group did Nina party with during college?
(a) The Surrealists.
(b) The Essentialists.
(c) The Punks.
(d) The Vitalists.

8. How did Lillian describe Sam when she reunited with him?
(a) Ramshackle.
(b) Fragile.
(c) Soft.
(d) Tender.

9. What was the main consequence of the court verdict for Samantha?
(a) She was tormented in school.
(b) She lost Kaja’s friendship.
(c) She lost her scholarship at Prospect Friends and returned to public school.
(d) She stopped trusting her mother.

10. How did Lillian make friends with her black neighbors when Lillian and Samantha moved to a mixed-race neighborhood?
(a) She loaned her books.
(b) She invited her in for tea and cake.
(c) She gave her rides when she needed them.
(d) She gave her a photo of her son.

11. What barrier did the group Nina hung around with in college want to break down?
(a) Between representation and reality.
(b) Between art and viewer.
(c) Between gallery and market.
(d) Between performance and memory.

12. Where did Samantha get Franny Panic’s real name and contact information?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) She called her agent.
(c) She asked her after a show.
(d) Her mother.

13. What is Samantha doing in the last portrait her mother took of her?
(a) Looking innocent.
(b) Looking earnest.
(c) Playing, unaware.
(d) Looking murderous.

14. How did Lyonel Tsaregorodcev characterize Lillian’s work at the MoMA portfolio day?
(a) The real deal.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Sophomoric.
(d) Ambitious.

15. Why were Samantha’s feet stepped on in her first day of junior high school?
(a) Her shoes were judged too fancy by the other students.
(b) Her shoes were too big.
(c) The other students took an immediate dislike to her attitude.
(d) Her shoes matched her handbag in a way the students mocked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?

2. How did Samantha put up a protest against how things were going for her in junior high school?

3. What did Lillian tell Deborah she refused to be defined by?

4. How does Lillian say things have changed, now that she cannot take photographs of Samantha?

5. What does Samantha say she was overcome with, when her grandmother asked her if she wanted to live with them in Cleveland?

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