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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of songs did Anita choose to sing?
(a) One's she could "feel".
(b) Popular ones.
(c) Emotional heavy ones.
(d) Sexy ones.

2. What do Chapters 6 through 9 show the reader about Anita's life?
(a) Addiction.
(b) Failure and success.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) The roller coaster existence of a musician's life.

3. Who introduced Anita to heroin?
(a) John.
(b) Gene.
(c) Don.
(d) Carl.

4. What does Anita feel life on the road leads to?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Hardships.
(d) Stress.

5. Who was Vido Musso?
(a) A singer.
(b) A tenor saxophone player.
(c) A manager.
(d) A producer.

6. Whose band did Anita join in Chapter 7?
(a) Carl's.
(b) Stan Kenton's.
(c) No one's.
(d) Stacey's.

7. What was Anita diagnosed with?
(a) Depression.
(b) Sleep apnea.
(c) Anxiety neuroses.
(d) Insomnia.

8. When did Anita get booked throughout the country?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1944.

9. Where did Anita go on tour with Benny Goodman?
(a) Africa.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Sweden and Germany.
(d) Germany.

10. What did Anita have to pass to obtain a permit to perform?
(a) A sobriety test.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A music test.
(d) A drug test.

11. What did Anita and Carl do before he shipped out for war?
(a) Married.
(b) Went to dinner.
(c) Went on a walk.
(d) Divorced.

12. Where did the band begin to perform during Chapter 6?
(a) Military bases.
(b) Univeristy campus's.
(c) Amphitheatres.
(d) On the road.

13. What was the Village Vanguard?
(a) The youngest club in New York.
(b) A campground.
(c) A nice park.
(d) The oldest club in New York.

14. Where was Joe the piano player from?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Boston.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

15. Who offered Anita the job as female vocalist at twice what Gene paid her?
(a) Woody Herman.
(b) Herman Woods.
(c) Woody Hermann.
(d) Woods Hersemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Joe Glaser?

2. What did Anita see her constant travel as?

3. How long did Anita spend with the band she was offered a job with when she was in Hollywood?

4. How long did Anita remain with the band in Chapter 7?

5. What did Anita refuse to autograph of John's?

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