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

2. How long did Samantha spend in Cleveland the summer after her mother’s arrest?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

3. What did Lillian say she thought she was doing by taking the pictures she took?
(a) Making windows.
(b) Protecting her daughter.
(c) Saving moments.
(d) Revealing truths.

4. What emotion does Samantha say people are looking at Lillian with in Item #92, Seventh Avenue?
(a) Irritation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Relief.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tsaregorodcev do that caused Lillian to storm out of his office?

2. How long did Samantha go to Cleveland for after Lillian’s first solo show?

3. How does Stromlin describe Lillian’s pictures in his review of the Lacuna exhibit?

4. How does Lillian say things have changed, now that she cannot take photographs of Samantha?

5. What did Samantha call the café she hung out at in order to avoid the kids from school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

6. What realization did Samantha arrive at when she followed her boyfriend to the party at an art collector’s house?

7. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

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

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

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