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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Yessir, the Whaddycall 'em Blues1925.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Dorothy fear Eddie's family wouldn't like her?
(a) Because she had such a strong personality.
(b) Because she had no mother.
(c) Because she had a loose tounge.
(d) Because she was Jewish.

2. Who was the publication that Harold Ross and Jane Grant created marketed toward?
(a) The urban housewife.
(b) The suburban housewife.
(c) The sophisticated metropolitain.
(d) The single young lady.

3. Who did Robert Benchley meet while in Paris for the summer of 1925?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

4. Who was Dorothy teamed with professionally that turned into a short, but unsuccessful affair?
(a) Charles MacArthur.
(b) George Kaufman
(c) Elmer Rice.
(d) Robert Sherwood.

5. What did Dorothy think about her position at Vogue?
(a) She felt indifferent towards the position.
(b) She thought it was a stepping stone.
(c) She loved the position, and didn't ever want to leave.
(d) She thought it was a thankless and tedious job.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of 1922, what did the Round Tablers do?

2. Where were Dorothy's grandparents from?

3. While living at the Algonquin, Dorothy forgot to pay one critical bill -- what was that bill?

4. Dorothy was asked to sit to have her portrait painted. Where was the portrait exhibited?

5. When was the first issue of The New Yorker published?

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