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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 question does Edna ask Celia when the two first meet that endears Edna to Celia?
(a) Whether Celia is from a line of Italian nobility.
(b) Whether Celia has had offers from agents to represent her yet.
(c) Whether Celia has acted in films yet.
(d) Whether Celia is formally trained in ballet.

2. Who is the male dancer who is the most talented at The Lily?
(a) Richard.
(b) Marcus.
(c) Tony.
(d) Roland.

3. Why does Vivian think she might have done so badly at Vassar?
(a) She did not like the subject she was majoring in.
(b) She was sad that her grandmother had recently died.
(c) She was dyslexic.
(d) She was trying to get her parents' attention.

4. How had Edna Parker Watson and Peg become friends?
(a) They had met through family friends.
(b) They had met through Peg's estranged husband, Billy Buell.
(c) They had met in France during the Great War.
(d) They had met in acting school.

5. Who does Vivian wake up from celebrating her twentieth birthday to find unexpectedly in her room, staring at her?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her Uncle Billy Buell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Celia say will fix her black eye that she gets when the men in the hotel in Chapter Seven assault her?

2. What was happening in Europe right around the time Vivian moved to New York City, in the summer of 1940?

3. Which of the following does Vivian recall having anxiety about in her personal life in the summer of 1940?

4. What does Aunt Peg own?

5. What had Peg told Edna about performing for the troops during the Great War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What circumstances bring Edna Parker Watson and Arthur Watson to The Lily Playhouse?

2. What was Vivian's relationship with her grandmother Morris, her father's mother, like?

3. In Chapter Eight, how did Vivian feel about the impending war in 1940?

4. In Chapter Nine, how does Vivian feel when she meets Edna Parker Watson?

5. In Chapter Nine, how does Vivian feel when she meets Arthur Watson?

6. How does Vivian's Aunt Peg come by enough money to have bought The Lily Playhouse?

7. In Chapter One, what connection does Vivian make for the first time between Grandmother Morris's death and her experience at Vassar?

8. How does Vivian's Aunt Peg receive her when Vivian first appears at The Lily?

9. How did Grandmother Morris treat Vivian as she taught her how to sew?

10. In Chapter Seven, why does Celia tell Vivian to go get her cigarettes and not come back to the hotel room?

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