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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the male lead in Hepburn's first movie?

2. What month was it when Hepburn's house was destroyed?

3. When did Fanny die?

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

5. What did Hepburn's mother become the president of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What difficulty on the set of "Alice Adams" does Hepburn recount?

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

4. How was Fenwick destroyed in 1938? What were the Hepburns able to retrieve from the house?

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

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

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

8. Why was Hepburn fired from "The Big Pond"?

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

10. After their trip to Fenwick, what did Harris do to make Hepburn's life miserable? What did Hepburn have to do to get out of the situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would one define Hepburn's career, following Tracy's death until her retirement? How did she overcome them? What productions was Hepburn involved in during her last years as an actress? What were some anecdotes she shared of this time period? Why did she stop acting?

Essay Topic 2

Hepburn's film career is well-known, but who was Hepburn the person? What were her defining personality traits? What were her hopes and dreams? Who were the closest people to her?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the conflicts in the autobiography. Who does Hepburn have conflict with, and why? How does she deal with these conflicts? What causes these conflicts? How do they affect her life?

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