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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 did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha in school?
(a) She was treated the same as ever.
(b) She was treated as a hero.
(c) She had to fight other kids all the time.
(d) She was socially abandoned.

2. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?
(a) Paul taking Kaja to Detroit.
(b) Kaja moving in with Paul full-time.
(c) Paul stopping paying child support.
(d) Kaja stopping at the Movement school.

3. What did Samantha call the café she hung out at in order to avoid the kids from school?
(a) The island.
(b) The pariah café.
(c) The hideaway.
(d) The cave.

4. Why did Samantha’s grandparents refuse to take her to see Kaja?
(a) The distance was too far.
(b) They disapproved of Kaja.
(c) They did not know her neighborhood.
(d) The neighborhood was too rough.

5. When would Sam Decker close his café?
(a) Whenever the light was good for photographing.
(b) At 6p.m. religiously every night.
(c) Whenever he felt like it.
(d) When the golden hour before sunset started.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?

2. What change did Lillian make in her lifestyle while Nina’s case was before the NY Supreme Court?

3. What play did Samantha discover her acting talents in?

4. How did Samantha solve the problems that came with her feet being stepped on?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s first one-woman show, and how was the show received?

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

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