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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. What does Jennie tell her grandmother her diaphragm was for?

2. What is Celia Ray's birth name?

3. What does Vivian remember thinking when she saw Edna Parker Watson for the first time?

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

5. Who is the schoolgirl shop assistant who always helps Vivian out finding good materials at the garment shop?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Vivian receives a letter from Angela asking what she was to Angela's father, how does Vivian decide to respond?

2. Who is Mr. Donald Herbert and how does he react when Peg asks him to write a good, new play for Edna to star in?

3. How does Vivian describe Celia's feelings about being assaulted in the hotel room in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter Two, who meets Vivian at the train station and what is this person like?

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

6. How does Vivian use her sewing and design skills to help out at The Lily?

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

8. How does Celia Ray become Vivian's roommate?

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

10. In Chapter Three, what does Vivian refer to as her "perfect" New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the emotional connections Vivian draws between her grandmother, her Aunt Peg, fashion, and The Lily Theater, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

"Anyway, at some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is" (377). At what stage in Vivian's life does she come to the above realization, and really become comfortable with the core of who she is?

Essay Topic 3

How do Frank Grecco and Vivian Morris both suffer from the shame they feel when, at different times in their lives, they have failed to live up to society's expectations about how an ideal man and woman should behave? How does Vivian's earlier disgrace help her console Frank with his shame when he is a much older man? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your analysis.

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