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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A mermaid.
(c) Zorro.
(d) A cop.
2. What was Lillian preparing while Samantha was in Cleveland?
(a) A book for Samantha.
(b) A show for Mr. Wythe.
(c) A show for MoMA’s portfolio day.
(d) A show for the Lacuna gallery.
3. Why did Nina and Lillian spend three days in jail?
(a) The police station lost their paperwork.
(b) They were considered dangerous.
(c) It was the weekend when they were arrested.
(d) They could not come up with bail money.
4. How did Samantha put up a protest against how things were going for her in junior high school?
(a) She stayed with Grete and Kaja.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She threatened to move to Cleveland.
(d) She stopped going to school.
5. What did Lillian start to do during the summer Samantha was gone to Cleveland?
(a) Take pills again.
(b) Try harder drugs.
(c) Drink.
(d) Trying to quit her pills.
6. What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule regarding Nina’s case?
(a) That the images were not obscene.
(b) That the images were art, and therefore distinct from the question of obscenity.
(c) That NY state was within its rights to label the images obscene.
(d) That the images were obscene.
7. How does Samantha describe the quality the stage gave her that she could not find anywhere else?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Invisibility.
8. What did Lillian’s father tell her he had always wanted to do?
(a) Travel to Europe.
(b) Become a doctor.
(c) Climb mountains.
(d) Get pilot training.
9. Where did Samantha stay while Lillian was in the hospital?
(a) With her boyfriend.
(b) With Deborah.
(c) With Nina.
(d) With Grete.
10. How did Lyonel Tsaregorodcev characterize Lillian’s work at the MoMA portfolio day?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Sophomoric.
(c) The real deal.
(d) Ambitious.
11. What was the main consequence of the court verdict for Samantha?
(a) She lost her scholarship at Prospect Friends and returned to public school.
(b) She was tormented in school.
(c) She stopped trusting her mother.
(d) She lost Kaja’s friendship.
12. What did Lillian say she thought she was doing by taking the pictures she took?
(a) Protecting her daughter.
(b) Revealing truths.
(c) Making windows.
(d) Saving moments.
13. What symptom lingered after Lillian’s weekend in jail?
(a) Panic attacks.
(b) Shaking hands.
(c) Depression.
(d) Double vision.
14. Where does Item #71 show the effects of Lillian’s imprisonment?
(a) In her broken arm.
(b) In her bruised eye.
(c) In her bowed shoulders.
(d) In her haunted look.
15. What caused Samantha to stop talking to her mother?
(a) She saw the Samantha series in an art collector’s house.
(b) She got pregnant and got an abortion and Lillian disapproved.
(c) She learned that Lillian had hurt her own health with her pills.
(d) She learned that Lillian had never wanted to have a child.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of dress did Samantha wear to the gallery opening at Lacuna?
2. What does Lillian say she found beauty in after getting out of jail?
3. What was an unintended effect of Nina’s publicity drawing attention to her case?
4. Why did Samantha not recognize her mother when Lillian came to pick her up after school after getting out of jail?
5. What act of devotion does Samantha say her grandmother performed for Lillian?
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