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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 jobs did Ann and Lucy have in Iowa?
(a) Teaching fellowships.
(b) Waitresses.
(c) Photographers.
(d) Tutors.

2. Who was the friend that Ann made while at the Fine Arts Work Center?
(a) Judith Naylor.
(b) Elizabeth McCracken.
(c) Suzanne Kelly.
(d) Maggie Kerrigan.

3. Ann thought that the sad fictional world that Lucy created was _____________________.
(a) An exercise from her therapist.
(b) A symptom of schizophrenia.
(c) Lucy's way of coping with life.
(d) Research for a book.

4. What kind of job did Ann want?
(a) Creative writing teacher.
(b) English teacher.
(c) Math teacher.
(d) Biology teacher.

5. What were Ann's accommodations at Yaddo?
(a) A mansion.
(b) A townhouse.
(c) A cabin.
(d) A hotel room.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was Lucy born?

2. In what city did Lucy have more reconstructive surgery?

3. What was the amount of the stipend Lucy received as part of the Bunting fellowship?

4. What was a major flaw in the Yaddo accommodations?

5. Who wrote AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the premise of TRUTH & BEAUTY?

2. How could Ann's love for Lucy have been called unconditional?

3. Why did Lucy have an obsession with the Holocaust?

4. Why did Lucy hate Aberdeen and what did Ann think about it when she visited Lucy there?

5. How did Ann come to know Lucy Grealy, and what circumstances made them roommates in Iowa?

6. Describe an event in which Lucy was bullied in Scotland.

7. Who was Dennis, and why was he not a positive force in Ann's life?

8. How did Ann and Lucy view writing at this point in their lives?

9. Why was Lucy's life such an anomaly?

10. What did Lucy find strength in what made her consider writing non-fiction instead of fiction?

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