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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 was Kaja learning about in the school she attended?
(a) Women’s liberation and rights.
(b) New York history and architecture.
(c) Class struggle.
(d) Black history and art.

2. What was the main consequence of the court verdict for Samantha?
(a) She was tormented in school.
(b) She lost Kaja’s friendship.
(c) She lost her scholarship at Prospect Friends and returned to public school.
(d) She stopped trusting her mother.

3. How often does Samantha say Lillian spoke of jail after she was arrested?
(a) Only once.
(b) Infrequently.
(c) All the time.
(d) Only when things were hard.

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

5. What symptom lingered after Lillian’s weekend in jail?
(a) Panic attacks.
(b) Shaking hands.
(c) Double vision.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Samantha characterize her relationship with her mother’s work?

2. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha?

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

4. What emotion does Samantha say people are looking at Lillian with in Item #92, Seventh Avenue?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Samantha change herself in order to bear her hard feelings after the court found against her mother and Nina?

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

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

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

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

9. How did Nina and Lillian approach their charges differently?

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

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