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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. How does Hepburn feel about her parents?
(a) She feels lucky to have had the parents she had.
(b) She wishes she was closer to them.
(c) She thinks of them more as friends then as parents.
(d) She believes they should never had had children.

2. Who did Leland fall in love with when he went East for a play?
(a) Margaret Sullivan.
(b) Jane Russell.
(c) Carole Lombard.
(d) Loretta Young.

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

4. What did Leland often do while Hepburn ate dinner?
(a) Drink a glass of wine.
(b) Sing to her.
(c) Play solitaire.
(d) Smoke.

5. Where was Hepburn when she saw her mother cry for the first and only time?
(a) Sitting on a bench in a graveyard.
(b) On a ferry on the way to a crematorium.
(c) Waiting in the hospital during a loved one's surgery.
(d) Sitting in the back of a taxi following a funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bought the rights to The Philadelphia Story for Hepburn?

2. What was the family able to recover by digging, after the house was destroyed in 1938?

3. What did Hepburn and Laura think of the house they shared?

4. What was Hepburn's father's name?

5. What was the name of Hepburn's maternal grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

1. What party at George Cukor's home does Hepburn recall in particular?

2. What did Hepburn's maternal grandmother, Caroline, want her daughters to do in their lives?

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

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

5. What did Hepburn think of Howard Hughes at first? How did the two of them get to know each other better?

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

7. How did Leland end his relationship with Hepburn?

8. After marrying, what did Hepburn decide to do career-wise?

9. What story does Hepburn tell about a wild animal in the section titled "Leland Hayward"?

10. 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?

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