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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 was Kaja learning about in the school she attended?
(a) Black history and art.
(b) Class struggle.
(c) Women’s liberation and rights.
(d) New York history and architecture.

2. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?
(a) A jealous lover.
(b) An artist she had insulted.
(c) A priest.
(d) A neighbor.

3. Why does Samantha say she hates the picture Mommy is Sick?
(a) She thinks it is obscene.
(b) She hates to see herself so naïve and subject to her mother’s whims.
(c) She hates seeing her own worry.
(d) She thinks it is pornographic.

4. How does Stromlin describe Lillian’s pictures in his review of the Lacuna exhibit?
(a) Artful.
(b) Light and sweet.
(c) Obscene.
(d) Troubling but beautiful.

5. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?
(a) Lillian was willing to dismiss the facts to believe she was a good mother.
(b) Lillian was busy preparing for a big show.
(c) Samantha refused to let her see evidence of her decline.
(d) Samantha stole money to replace the money she took from her mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Samantha’s tattoo done with, in Item #63, Samantha’s tattoo?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the last self-portraits show?

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

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

10. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

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