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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 Grete characterize Lillian’s state of mind at the end of the summer?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Healthy and relaxed.
(c) Strung out.
(d) Morose.

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

3. How did Lillian’s and Samantha’s household change after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) They were almost always silent.
(b) Lillian stopped working at home.
(c) Nina was a constant houseguest.
(d) They were never home.

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

5. How did Lillian make friends with her black neighbors when Lillian and Samantha moved to a mixed-race neighborhood?
(a) She gave her a photo of her son.
(b) She loaned her books.
(c) She invited her in for tea and cake.
(d) She gave her rides when she needed them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of eggs does Samantha say her grandmother made for her that summer?

3. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?

4. What was it that got Lillian to go to the doctor for a diagnosis?

5. Why was Samantha taken to the nurse, after news of the NY Supreme Court verdict came out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

2. What do the last self-portraits show?

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

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

5. How does Goldberg characterize Samantha’s arrival in junior high school?

6. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

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

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

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

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