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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 does Samantha characterize her relationship with her mother’s work?
(a) Muse.
(b) Collaborator.
(c) Bystander.
(d) Victim.
2. Where had Samantha been while Lillian was being arrested?
(a) Day care with Mrs. Ardolini.
(b) With Deborah.
(c) Grete and Kaja’s house.
(d) School.
3. What group did Nina party with during college?
(a) The Essentialists.
(b) The Vitalists.
(c) The Punks.
(d) The Surrealists.
4. How does Stromlin describe Lillian’s pictures in his review of the Lacuna exhibit?
(a) Light and sweet.
(b) Obscene.
(c) Troubling but beautiful.
(d) Artful.
5. How does Grete describe the pictures Lillian prepared to present at the end of the summer?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Obscene.
(c) Idiosyncratic.
(d) Perfect.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Lillian’s demeanor when she was arrested?
2. Where does Item #71 show the effects of Lillian’s imprisonment?
3. What did Tsaregorodcev do that caused Lillian to storm out of his office?
4. What kind of lawyer took Nina and Lillian’s case?
5. What did Samantha’s boyfriend bring with him to Cleveland, when he brought Lillian’s furniture out in his family’s moving truck?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?
2. Why did Lillian’s parents always return to the same booth at the same restaurant while she was in treatment?
3. What effect did jail have on Lillian?
4. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?
5. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s first one-woman show, and how was the show received?
6. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?
7. How does Goldberg characterize Samantha’s arrival in junior high school?
8. How did Lillian respond to Samantha, when Samantha asked her to have another show of her work?
9. What do the last self-portraits show?
10. How did Samantha’s second summer in Cleveland affect Lillian’s friendship with Grete?
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