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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 Hepburn decide about her career when she first married?
(a) She decided to work only part-time.
(b) She decided to take one year off.
(c) She decided to quit acting.
(d) She decided to work full-time to support her husband.

2. Who did Hepburn have tea with while working on The Lake?
(a) The pope.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) George V.
(d) Winston Churchill.

3. What was Leland's profession?
(a) He was a set designer.
(b) He was an actor.
(c) He was an agent.
(d) He was a producer.

4. What was Hepburn's father involved in educating the public about?
(a) American policies on gender equality.
(b) The Christian doctrine.
(c) Venereal diseases.
(d) Bacteria found in meats and fish.

5. Which of Hepburn's siblings died at the age of seventy?
(a) Anne.
(b) Tina.
(c) Marion.
(d) Mindy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hepburn grow up?

2. What did Leland often do while Hepburn ate dinner?

3. According to Hepburn, why did Cukor never receive the credit he deserved?

4. What was Leland's last name?

5. What two plays did Hepburn do with Arthur Hopkins?

Short Essay Questions

1. After what event did Jed Harris's treatment of Hepburn change?

2. After the end of her relationship with Leland, what did Hepburn's friends and family tell her?

3. After they married, what did Hepburn ask Luddy to change about himself? Why?

4. Why were Hepburn's eyes red and swollen when she arrived to work on her first film? What did her employers assume about her condition?

5. How did Luddy upset Hughes when he visited Fenwick? What words did Dr. Hepburn have for Hughes on this occasion?

6. What example does Hepburn provide for how different she and Leland Hayward were? With this example, what compromise did they make to get along?

7. What does Hepburn say her father learned from his relationship with his mother?

8. How long did Hepburn stay in Hollywood making films before returning to New York? How did she and Luddy meet during this time?

9. How did Hepburn's father react to her relationship with H. Phelps Putnam?

10. When young, what would Hepburn and her friend Alice do for excitement in Fenwick? Why did they stop doing this?

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