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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Patricia Stokes say was the price for Lilly’s immense talent?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Perpetual fear.
(d) Constant attention.

2. How regularly did Lillian take self-portraits after 18 weeks?
(a) Every month.
(b) Every day.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every three weeks.

3. What effect would the image of Mommy is Sick have on the narrator?
(a) It would make her want to do good work.
(b) It would make her want to find people to help.
(c) It would make her want to make meaningful art.
(d) It would make her feel better when life was hard.

4. What does Patricia Stokes say exasperated her about Lillian?
(a) The darkroom in the bathroom.
(b) Her drug use.
(c) Her loose friends.
(d) Her perpetual poverty.

5. Where did Lillian go for the abortion?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The West Village.
(c) Queens.
(d) Jersey City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lillian move after her apartment with Patty?

2. At the Ipslinger Gallery, Lillian exhibits with a man who is known as the Ansel Adams of what kind of photography?

3. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s appearance later in her pregnancy?

4. How does Samantha characterize herself as a child?

5. What did Lillian install in the house when she stopped photographing outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian document her pregnancy?

2. How did Lillian and Samantha end up moving to Brooklyn?

3. How does Lillian characterize her attempt to get an abortion?

4. What led Lillian to take Samantha and leave the house where they had lived with Ken?

5. How does Samantha react when Lillian tells her that they will be staying with Grete and Kaja permanently?

6. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?

7. How does Samantha say Lillian set up her camera shots?

8. How does the novel characterize Lillian Preston’s relationship with her parents?

9. How is Samantha’s father characterized in the novel?

10. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?

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