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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. Who paid Nina and Lillian’s bail?
(a) Grete.
(b) Lillian’s father.
(c) Kenneth.
(d) Nina’s father.

2. How did Lillian make friends with her black neighbors when Lillian and Samantha moved to a mixed-race neighborhood?
(a) She loaned her books.
(b) She gave her rides when she needed them.
(c) She gave her a photo of her son.
(d) She invited her in for tea and cake.

3. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?
(a) Kaja moving in with Paul full-time.
(b) Paul taking Kaja to Detroit.
(c) Kaja stopping at the Movement school.
(d) Paul stopping paying child support.

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

5. What barrier did the group Nina hung around with in college want to break down?
(a) Between gallery and market.
(b) Between art and viewer.
(c) Between performance and memory.
(d) Between representation and reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lillian preparing while Samantha was in Cleveland?

2. Why did Samantha not recognize her mother when Lillian came to pick her up after school after getting out of jail?

3. Why does Samantha say she hates the picture Mommy is Sick?

4. Why were Samantha’s feet stepped on in her first day of junior high school?

5. What was Samantha’s tattoo done with, in Item #63, Samantha’s tattoo?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?

3. What was Lillian’s summer without Lillian like?

4. What do the last self-portraits show?

5. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

6. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

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

9. What effect did the court ruling have on Lillian and Samantha?

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

(see the answer keys)

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