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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. Where did Samantha stay while Lillian was in the hospital?
(a) With Deborah.
(b) With Grete.
(c) With Nina.
(d) With her boyfriend.

2. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?
(a) Lillian was willing to dismiss the facts to believe she was a good mother.
(b) Samantha refused to let her see evidence of her decline.
(c) Samantha stole money to replace the money she took from her mother.
(d) Lillian was busy preparing for a big show.

3. What did Lillian start to do during the summer Samantha was gone to Cleveland?
(a) Drink.
(b) Try harder drugs.
(c) Trying to quit her pills.
(d) Take pills again.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an unintended effect of Nina’s publicity drawing attention to her case?

2. What was the occasion that took Grete and Lillian out of the house whileKaja and Samantha took cigarettes and beer from the house?

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

4. What did Lillian’s father tell her he had always wanted to do?

5. What was Nina’s demeanor while she was being arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian handle her interview with the MoMA curator?

2. Why did Lillian’s parents always return to the same booth at the same restaurant while she was in treatment?

3. How did Lillian respond to Samantha, when Samantha asked her to have another show of her work?

4. How did Lillian make a place for herself among the society of the women in prison?

5. How did Lillian reconnect with her high school friend Sam Decker?

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

7. How does Goldberg characterize Samantha’s arrival in junior high school?

8. What story did Lillian’s father tell her on the way to chemo at the hospital that made a middle ground between them?

9. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

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

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