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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Groton school decide to do which made Francis go berserk?
(a) Have shorter school years.
(b) Raise the tuition prices.
(c) Tear down a wing which Francis had funded.
(d) Admit black students.

2. Which of Edie's brother developed problems with alcohol and drugs?
(a) Harold.
(b) Minty.
(c) George.
(d) Bert.

3. Who did Francis Minturn Sedgwick marry?
(a) Alice Davenport.
(b) Alice Vanderbilt.
(c) Alice Hepburn.
(d) Alice Delano de Forest.

4. In the 1930s, the Sedgwicks divided their time between Long Island and which place?
(a) Miami.
(b) Santa Barbara.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Las Vegas.

5. In the book, Edie: An American Biography who helps to tell the story of the Sedgwick ancestors?
(a) College professors.
(b) Sedgwick family members.
(c) 1960s historians.
(d) The media.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who encouraged Francis Sedgwick to develop his artistic side?

2. What were the group of gays Edie fell in with at Harvard referred to as?

3. How does Jane describe Edie as a little girl?

4. Who was Edie Sedgwick named after?

5. What disease did Edie suffer from which led to her being taken out of boarding school?

(see the answer key)

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