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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Sonnets in Suicide, or the Life of John Knox 1929-1932.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Conde Nast's memo to the entire publication of Vanity Fair prohibit?
(a) Idol chatter.
(b) Alcohol, before the prohibition started.
(c) The discussion of salaries.
(d) Lunch breaks outside of the building.

2. Who came up with the name of the lunch club?
(a) A writer, Frances Partridge.
(b) A cartoonist, Edmund Duffy.
(c) A cartoonist, Chester Gould.
(d) A novelist, Daniel Hickey.

3. What was the name of the drug Dorothy discovered that gave her a terrific effect when combined with scotch?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Veronal.
(c) Ibuprofin.
(d) Codine.

4. After receiving a telegram from John Garrett, what did Dorothy consider?
(a) Suicide by drowning in the Seine.
(b) Going home to New York.
(c) Accepting his marriage proposal.
(d) Suicide by jumping off the balcony.

5. Who came up with the idea of an exclusive lunch club?
(a) Aleck Woolcott.
(b) Eddie Parker.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Robert Benchley.

Short Answer Questions

1. When her relationship with John McCain ended, how did Dorothy try to kill herself?

2. Where and what was Dorothy's first position after Vanity Fair?

3. What pet project did Dorothy's colleagues, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, worked desperately to get published?

4. What was the name of the play Dorothy co-wrote in 1923?

5. What historically significant event happened the same week Dorothy was fired?

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