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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dorothy do to all the work she created while in Paris?
(a) She lost it all when her satchel was stolen.
(b) She tore it up.
(c) She saved it to submit when she got back to the city.
(d) It got lost in a housefire.

2. In her will, who did Dorothy leave all her assets to?
(a) The Screen Writers Guild.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) Reverend Martin Luther King.
(d) The NRA.

3. What did Alan have installed in the house that he saw in a movie?
(a) A trap door behind a false bookcase.
(b) A trap door under a false fireplace.
(c) A trap door behind a false fireplace.
(d) A trap door under a statue.

4. In 1946, what did Dorothy do about her relationship with Alan?
(a) She had an affair with even younger men to spite him.
(b) She reconciled with him.
(c) She announced her intent to divorce him.
(d) She moved overseas to be with him.

5. What word described Lillian Hellman very well?
(a) Socialite.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Elitist.

6. What was the second cause Dorothy becomes involved in during 1936?
(a) Actor's rights.
(b) Writer's rights.
(c) Children's rights.
(d) Producer's rights.

7. What did Dorothy's ideas change about?
(a) Marriage and family.
(b) Aging and relationships.
(c) Death and immortality.
(d) Death and aging.

8. With whom did F.Scott Fitzgerald look to replace his ailing wife with?
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Sheelagh Kennedy.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) Sheilah Graham.

9. Who died in 1945 that was close to Dorothy?
(a) Her sister Helen.
(b) Her brother Bert.
(c) Robert Benchley.
(d) Robert Sherwood.

10. Who did Alan replace in Dorothy's life?
(a) Robert Benchley.
(b) Robert Sherwood.
(c) Her Mother.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

11. Who inspired Dorothy to pick up her fiction writing again?
(a) Robert Benchley.
(b) Sheilah Graham.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Alan Campbell.

12. What family did Dorothy visit while in Antibes?
(a) The Fitzgeralds.
(b) The Hemingways.
(c) The Oppenheimers.
(d) The Murpheys.

13. Who did Dorothy want to differentiate herself with?
(a) Other socialites.
(b) Other women.
(c) Other writers.
(d) Other Round Tablers.

14. What did Dorothy discover when she was 43?
(a) That she had sibling's she'd never met.
(b) That her mother-in-law didn't like her.
(c) That her husband was only with her for money.
(d) That she was pregnant.

15. Dorothy donated money to several causes during 1936. What about donating the money never occurred to her?
(a) Follow up with the groups.
(b) Ask questions about the origins of the groups or how the money was spent.
(c) File the donations on her taxes.
(d) Do research on the causes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saved George Kaufman, the writer of the incriminating play, from Dorothy's wrath?

2. After 20 years, what did Dorothy feel she had enough energy to do?

3. Who did Dorothy meet at the National Institute of Arts and Letters banquet?

4. Alan and Dorothy felt that they couldn't lay down roots in Hollywood. Where did they buy a house to do just that?

5. Who was the other "most sought-after" women of 1932?

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