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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. When Anne meets Henry for lunch at 21, how many weeks has she worked for Gillian?

2. What is the new musical hit of Broadway in 1964?

3. What happens to Kevin Gillmore that caused him to want to marry Anne?

4. What does Neely do to get out of doing Kevin's show?

5. What office does Neely sign with when released from Bellamy, Bellows and Burke.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Neely return from Hollywood after only three weeks of shooting?

2. Why does Neely not want to continue the tour?

3. Why does Lyon eventually decide to drop Neely from the firm?

4. Why does Kevin Gilmore want Anne to be the Gillian girl?

5. Why do Kevin, Anne, and Neely go upstate to the sanitarium.

6. Why does Henry say that the press is not covering Neely's affair with Lyon very hard?

7. Why does Kevin Gillmore finally ask Anne to marry him?

8. Why does Anne say that Jennifer will always be in debt? Why is Jennifer really in debt?

9. What does Anne say about not marrying Lyon Burke and being changed when Henry asks her about it at lunch?

10. Why is Jennifer so smitten with Senator Winston Adams?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use of dialogue in the story. Do you believe the use of dialogue moves the story forward or is it stilted? Would the story have been better told in a narrative form rather than using dialogue? Explain and defend your stance.

Essay Topic 2

What is your definition of a hero? Using that criteria, do any of the characters in Valley of the Dolls qualify as a hero? Why or why not? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think of Anne's statements at the end of the book? It becomes pretty obvious that she has no intention to leave Lyon. What would you have done in her case? Do you think she is brave or cowardly for her making the choice she did?

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