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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Samantha describe the quality the stage gave her that she could not find anywhere else?
(a) Purpose.
(b) Invisibility.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Clarity.

2. How does Grete characterize Lillian’s state of mind at the end of the summer?
(a) Morose.
(b) Healthy and relaxed.
(c) Strung out.
(d) Anxious.

3. Where had Samantha been while Lillian was being arrested?
(a) Grete and Kaja’s house.
(b) School.
(c) With Deborah.
(d) Day care with Mrs. Ardolini.

4. Why does Samantha say she hates the picture Mommy is Sick?
(a) She thinks it is obscene.
(b) She hates seeing her own worry.
(c) She hates to see herself so naïve and subject to her mother’s whims.
(d) She thinks it is pornographic.

5. What did Lillian tell Deborah she refused to be defined by?
(a) The obscenity verdict.
(b) Mr. Janovic’s criticisms.
(c) Samantha's timidity.
(d) Her parent’s judgments.

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

7. What did Kaja’s father tell Samantha about her mother’s work?
(a) It was dangerous.
(b) It was meaningless.
(c) It was divine.
(d) It deserved respect.

8. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 22 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

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

11. What did Samantha call the café she hung out at in order to avoid the kids from school?
(a) The cave.
(b) The pariah café.
(c) The island.
(d) The hideaway.

12. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?
(a) A priest.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) An artist she had insulted.
(d) A jealous lover.

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

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

15. What was Samantha’s tattoo done with, in Item #63, Samantha’s tattoo?
(a) Marker.
(b) Crayon.
(c) Beet juice.
(d) A nail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the outcome of Lillian’s first solo exhibition?

2. How long did Samantha spend in Cleveland the summer after her mother’s arrest?

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

4. What did Samantha learn when she called Kaja up to see if they could patch up their friendship?

5. How did Lillian describe Sam when she reunited with him?

(see the answer keys)

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