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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Saucie use to illustrate her feeling that Edie got everything she wanted?
(a) Edie being allowed to drive her father's Mercedes.
(b) Edie being able to decide what school she attended.
(c) Edie being given a pony.
(d) Edie having access to her father's bank account.

2. Who is Lily Saarinen?
(a) Edie's sister.
(b) Edie's friend.
(c) Edie's cousin.
(d) Edie's roommate.

3. What is the first name of Francis Sedgwick's daughter who was nicknamed "Saucie"?
(a) Betty.
(b) Alice.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Melanie.

4. Who is the author of Edie: An American Biography?
(a) Edie Sedgwick.
(b) Michael Post.
(c) Jean Stein.
(d) Katharine Branson.

5. Which of the following was a sign that life had changed for the Sedgwicks when they moved to their third home in California?
(a) Edie was given hand-me-downs to wear.
(b) Edie's parents were around less.
(c) There were more horses to ride.
(d) The butler served the family at the table.

6. While speaking about her family's life in California, what term does Saucie use to describe her parents?
(a) European wannabes.
(b) Renaissance people.
(c) Traditionalists.
(d) Beatniks.

7. Where did Theodore Sedgwick live?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Boston.

8. In Chapter 9, what secret do the Sedgwick children recall discovering about their father?
(a) His infidelities.
(b) That he wore a wig.
(c) His real age.
(d) The fortune he lost.

9. How did the Sedgwick children feel about California?
(a) They were indifferent.
(b) They missed the white Christmases.
(c) They hated the heat.
(d) They thought it was paradise.

10. What did Edie have nightmares about while she was at boarding school?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her teachers.
(d) Death.

11. What were many of the artworks Francis created inspired by?
(a) His family.
(b) WWII.
(c) Money.
(d) Women he had affairs with.

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

13. What were the group of gays Edie fell in with at Harvard referred to as?
(a) Harvard Homosexuals.
(b) Dancing Queens.
(c) Gay Guys.
(d) Nitroglycerin Queens.

14. Who was Jane Wilson?
(a) Francis' mistress.
(b) A friend of the family.
(c) The Sedgwick children's nurse.
(d) Edie's childhood friend.

15. The Sedgwick children believed that their father, Francis, carried shame for not entering which occupation?
(a) Law.
(b) Banking.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Business.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick get her nickname?

2. What kind of attitude does Saucie say Edie had developed by the time she was a young woman?

3. Who was Gabrielle Ladd?

4. In the Sedgwick family home, what was a "round up"?

5. What kind of home did the Sedgwicks first live in in California?

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