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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 does Lillian tell Deborah was essential for getting her through chemo?
(a) Deborah’s phone calls.
(b) Her mother’s soups.
(c) Samantha’s singing.
(d) Ken’s visits.

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

3. What was Lillian’s demeanor when she was arrested?
(a) Timid.
(b) Indignant.
(c) Defiant.
(d) Jovial.

4. What act of devotion does Samantha say her grandmother performed for Lillian?
(a) Sending her money she never spoke about.
(b) Telling her grandfather stories and hiding things to keep him and Lillian on good terms.
(c) Taking care of her boxes of contact sheets and prints for years.
(d) Going into debt to buy things for her and Samantha.

5. What was the occasion that took Grete and Lillian out of the house whileKaja and Samantha took cigarettes and beer from the house?
(a) A demonstration in Manhattan.
(b) A reception at MoMA where Lillian’s photo being shown.
(c) A show at Mr. Wythe’s gallery.
(d) A hearing at court.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lillian start to do during the summer Samantha was gone to Cleveland?

3. What did Sam offer Lillian?

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

5. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?

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

3. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

5. How did it come about that Lillian realized that she was sick?

6. How did Nina’s case fare at the Supreme Court?

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

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

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

10. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

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