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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 caused Samantha to stop talking to her mother?
(a) She got pregnant and got an abortion and Lillian disapproved.
(b) She saw the Samantha series in an art collector’s house.
(c) She learned that Lillian had never wanted to have a child.
(d) She learned that Lillian had hurt her own health with her pills.

2. How could Samantha tell how her mother was feeling when she was in the hospital?
(a) By how much film she had shot.
(b) By how much she talked.
(c) By how hungry she was.
(d) By how much water she had drunk.

3. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) Zorro.
(b) A cop.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A journalist.

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

5. What did Lillian start to do during the summer Samantha was gone to Cleveland?
(a) Take pills again.
(b) Drink.
(c) Try harder drugs.
(d) Trying to quit her pills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many photographs did MoMA ultimately acquire?

2. What group did Nina party with during college?

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

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

5. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

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

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

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