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

2. What was Samantha’s tattoo done with, in Item #63, Samantha’s tattoo?
(a) Marker.
(b) Beet juice.
(c) Crayon.
(d) A nail.

3. What happened to Samantha’s friendship with Kaja?
(a) They had a big fight over Samantha’s smoking.
(b) Grete kept them from seeing each other.
(c) Kaja dumped her for another friend.
(d) Samantha betrayed Kaja’s confidences to a friend.

4. What habit did Samantha take up as a survival tactic for junior high school?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Photography.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Smoking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an unintended effect of Nina’s publicity drawing attention to her case?

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

3. Where did cops start to appear in Lillian’s work after she was arrested?

4. What caused Samantha to stop talking to her mother?

5. How did Samantha put up a protest against how things were going for her in junior high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

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

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

5. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

7. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

8. What story did Lillian’s father tell her on the way to chemo at the hospital that made a middle ground between them?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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