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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 did Samantha’s boyfriend bring with him to Cleveland, when he brought Lillian’s furniture out in his family’s moving truck?
(a) Two tickets to California.
(b) Money for a house to share with her.
(c) An engagement ring.
(d) Money he’d raised for Lillian’s care.

2. Why was Samantha taken to the nurse, after news of the NY Supreme Court verdict came out?
(a) She was hyperventilating.
(b) She was beaten up by her classmates.
(c) She started crying uncontrollably.
(d) She fainted.

3. What did Lillian tell Deborah she refused to be defined by?
(a) The obscenity verdict.
(b) Samantha's timidity.
(c) Her parent’s judgments.
(d) Mr. Janovic’s criticisms.

4. What did Sam Decker tell Samantha he took pictures of?
(a) Time.
(b) People.
(c) A country.
(d) Light.

5. What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule regarding Nina’s case?
(a) That NY state was within its rights to label the images obscene.
(b) That the images were art, and therefore distinct from the question of obscenity.
(c) That the images were not obscene.
(d) That the images were obscene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samantha say she was overcome with, when her grandmother asked her if she wanted to live with them in Cleveland?

2. What happened to Samantha’s friendship with Kaja?

3. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?

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

5. What habit did Samantha take up as a survival tactic for junior high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did the court ruling have on Lillian and Samantha?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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