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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lillian’s and Samantha’s household change after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) They were almost always silent.
(b) Lillian stopped working at home.
(c) They were never home.
(d) Nina was a constant houseguest.

2. What did Mr. Wythe say Lillian was afraid of?
(a) Succeeding.
(b) Protecting her work.
(c) Losing her daughter.
(d) Being taken advantage of.

3. What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule regarding Nina’s case?
(a) That the images were obscene.
(b) That NY state was within its rights to label the images obscene.
(c) That the images were not obscene.
(d) That the images were art, and therefore distinct from the question of obscenity.

4. What emotion does Samantha say people are looking at Lillian with in Item #92, Seventh Avenue?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Relief.
(c) Fear.
(d) Irritation.

5. 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.

6. Why did Samantha’s grandparents refuse to take her to see Kaja?
(a) They did not know her neighborhood.
(b) The neighborhood was too rough.
(c) The distance was too far.
(d) They disapproved of Kaja.

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

8. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?
(a) Her mother snuck up on her when she did not think she was being watched.
(b) Her mother never asked her to take off her clothes.
(c) Her mother rewarded her for remaining unclothed in summer.
(d) Her mother begged her to pose nude for her.

9. Where did Samantha stay while Lillian was in the hospital?
(a) With Grete.
(b) With her boyfriend.
(c) With Deborah.
(d) With Nina.

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

11. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?
(a) Paul taking Kaja to Detroit.
(b) Kaja moving in with Paul full-time.
(c) Paul stopping paying child support.
(d) Kaja stopping at the Movement school.

12. What caused Samantha to stop talking to her mother?
(a) She got pregnant and got an abortion and Lillian disapproved.
(b) She learned that Lillian had hurt her own health with her pills.
(c) She learned that Lillian had never wanted to have a child.
(d) She saw the Samantha series in an art collector’s house.

13. What kind of dress did Samantha wear to the gallery opening at Lacuna?
(a) Lace.
(b) Organdy.
(c) Satin.
(d) Linen.

14. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha in school?
(a) She was treated as a hero.
(b) She had to fight other kids all the time.
(c) She was socially abandoned.
(d) She was treated the same as ever.

15. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) A cop.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) Zorro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Item #71 show the effects of Lillian’s imprisonment?

2. Why did Grete ask Lillian to leave her house for her reaction to her 20-foot shroud?

3. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?

4. Why were Samantha’s feet stepped on in her first day of junior high school?

5. What did Kaja’s father tell Samantha about her mother’s work?

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