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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 happened to Samantha’s friendship with Kaja?
(a) They had a big fight over Samantha’s smoking.
(b) Grete kept them from seeing each other.
(c) Samantha betrayed Kaja’s confidences to a friend.
(d) Kaja dumped her for another friend.

2. What did Sam Decker tell Samantha he took pictures of?
(a) Time.
(b) A country.
(c) Light.
(d) People.

3. How did Lillian’s and Samantha’s household change after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) Lillian stopped working at home.
(b) They were never home.
(c) Nina was a constant houseguest.
(d) They were almost always silent.

4. What emotion does Samantha say people are looking at Lillian with in Item #92, Seventh Avenue?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Fear.
(c) Irritation.
(d) Relief.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What change did Lillian make in her lifestyle while Nina’s case was before the NY Supreme Court?

2. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?

3. How did Lillian seem to Samantha when Samantha returned from Cleveland?

4. How many photographs did MoMA ultimately acquire?

5. What group did Nina party with during college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did it come about that Lillian realized that she was sick?

2. How did Samantha’s second summer in Cleveland affect Lillian’s friendship with Grete?

3. How did Lillian and Samantha connect with Franny Panic separately?

4. How has Samantha’s view of Mommy is Sick changed, now that she is an adult?

5. How did the controversy about the Samantha series affect Samantha’s schooling?

6. What is Samantha doing in the eight photographs known as The Samantha series?

7. What realization did Samantha arrive at when she followed her boyfriend to the party at an art collector’s house?

8. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

9. What do the last self-portraits show?

10. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?

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