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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 it that got Lillian to go to the doctor for a diagnosis?
(a) She felt a lump.
(b) She was too tired to get out of bed for a week.
(c) She started to cough blood.
(d) She started to have double vision.

2. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 22 weeks.

3. What play did Samantha discover her acting talents in?
(a) Romeo & Juliet.
(b) The Crucible.
(c) The Trojan Women.
(d) Our Town.

4. 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.

5. How many photographs did MoMA ultimately acquire?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 42.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symptom lingered after Lillian’s weekend in jail?

2. What was it that scared Samantha after Lillian got out of jail?

3. How does Grete describe the pictures Lillian prepared to present at the end of the summer?

4. What game would Samantha and Nina play on weekends after Lillian’s arrest?

5. How does Samantha say her grandparents appeared to her, seeing her that summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the last self-portraits show?

3. How did Samantha find out that her mother had been arrested?

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

5. How was Samantha’s school career altered by the Supreme Court verdict in Nina’s case?

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

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

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

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

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

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