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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Item #71 show the effects of Lillian’s imprisonment?
(a) In her bowed shoulders.
(b) In her haunted look.
(c) In her bruised eye.
(d) In her broken arm.

2. What was Lillian’s demeanor when she was arrested?
(a) Timid.
(b) Indignant.
(c) Defiant.
(d) Jovial.

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

4. What did Samantha’s boyfriend bring with him to Cleveland, when he brought Lillian’s furniture out in his family’s moving truck?
(a) Two tickets to California.
(b) Money he’d raised for Lillian’s care.
(c) An engagement ring.
(d) Money for a house to share with her.

5. Why was Samantha taken to the nurse, after news of the NY Supreme Court verdict came out?
(a) She was hyperventilating.
(b) She was beaten up by her classmates.
(c) She started crying uncontrollably.
(d) She fainted.

6. Why did Nina and Lillian spend three days in jail?
(a) They could not come up with bail money.
(b) They were considered dangerous.
(c) The police station lost their paperwork.
(d) It was the weekend when they were arrested.

7. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha?
(a) It made her defiant.
(b) It made her irrational.
(c) It made her paranoid.
(d) It made her withdrawn.

8. How did Nina characterize Lillian’s work when she saw it?
(a) Raw material.
(b) Diamond in the rough.
(c) Perfection.
(d) The real deal.

9. What was it that got Lillian to go to the doctor for a diagnosis?
(a) She started to cough blood.
(b) She was too tired to get out of bed for a week.
(c) She felt a lump.
(d) She started to have double vision.

10. What was Lillian preparing while Samantha was in Cleveland?
(a) A show for MoMA’s portfolio day.
(b) A book for Samantha.
(c) A show for the Lacuna gallery.
(d) A show for Mr. Wythe.

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

12. What was Kaja learning about in the school she attended?
(a) Class struggle.
(b) New York history and architecture.
(c) Women’s liberation and rights.
(d) Black history and art.

13. How does Lillian say things have changed, now that she cannot take photographs of Samantha?
(a) She is aware of all the ways she is a bad mother.
(b) She cannot keep her daughter.
(c) She does not know what to say to Samantha.
(d) She feels mortal.

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

15. What does Lillian say she found beauty in after getting out of jail?
(a) Dramatic times of day like sunset.
(b) Little things like taking care of Samantha.
(c) She says that she did not find beauty anywhere.
(d) Quiet and aloofness from people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?

2. Where did cops start to appear in Lillian’s work after she was arrested?

3. How does Grete describe the pictures Lillian prepared to present at the end of the summer?

4. Why did Samantha’s grandparents refuse to take her to see Kaja?

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

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