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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. How old was Samantha when Ken started to want kids of his own with Lillian?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.
2. How does Deborah recall her time living with Lillian?
(a) A golden age.
(b) A slog.
(c) An in-between time.
(d) A torment.
3. What choice did Lillian Preston give her daughter in regard to the photos in the Samantha series?
(a) To get rich from them or exhibit them privately only.
(b) To sell them or sequester them.
(c) To defend them or burn them.
(d) To exhibit them or destroy them.
4. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?
(a) Sam Decker.
(b) Nina Pagano.
(c) Lillian Preston.
(d) Lyonel Tsaregorodcev
5. Where did Grete take Kaja and Samantha to get them out of the house while Lillian was feeling ill after the abortion?
(a) Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) MoMA.
(c) The park.
(d) The circus.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?
2. How does Samantha characterize her feelings on meeting her grandparents?
3. How does the “Eyes on Photography” article characterize Lillian’s photography?
4. What church does Patricia Stokes say Lillian Preston worshipped in?
5. What did Lillian install in the house when she stopped photographing outside?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?
2. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?
3. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?
4. How does Lillian characterize her friendship with Nina?
5. What effect does the narrator say Lillian Preston’s photography had on her when she discovered it?
6. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?
7. What effect does the trip to Cleveland have on Samantha?
8. What does Patricia Stokes say about Lillian’s talent?
9. Where did Lillian work through her pregnancy and after?
10. How does the novel characterize Lillian Preston’s relationship with her parents?
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