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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event prompted Francis Minturn Sedgwick to have a nervous breakdown?
(a) An apparent ghost sighting.
(b) The stock market crash.
(c) A violent storm.
(d) The death of his mother.

2. Which of the following is not one of Francis Sedgwick's daughters?
(a) Katharine.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Pamela.

3. In what year did Francis Sedgwick marry?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1926.

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

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

6. In the 1930s, where was the Sedgwicks Long Island home located?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) Suffolk.
(d) Cold Spring Harbor.

7. What state was St. Timothy's school in?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Maryland.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

8. How old was Babbo when he died?
(a) Seventy-five years old.
(b) Eighty-one years old.
(c) Ninety-five years old.
(d) One hundred years old.

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

10. How did Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick get her nickname?
(a) She put large quantities of ketchup on her food.
(b) She was said to look like a sausage at birth.
(c) Spaghetti was her favorite food.
(d) She always behaved seductively around men.

11. What happened on Long Island that made Saucie break ties with her father?
(a) He told her she was a disappointment.
(b) He hit her.
(c) He embarassed her at a party.
(d) He made a pass at her.

12. What did Edie avoid even though she enjoyed hanging around intellectuals?
(a) Coffee shops and libraries.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Classic literature.

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

14. Which of the following seemed to plague Francis Minturn?
(a) Phobias.
(b) Chronic fatigue.
(c) Bad luck.
(d) Voices.

15. What did Edie intend to study in Cambridge when she moved there in 1963?
(a) Art.
(b) English.
(c) Religion.
(d) Film.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Saucie use to illustrate her feeling that Edie got everything she wanted?

2. In what year did Henry Dwight Sedgwick marry Sarah May Minturn?

3. Which of Edie's brother developed problems with alcohol and drugs?

4. In what position did the first Sedgewick on record serve in the Massachusetts Bay colony?

5. In what branch of the military did Francis' brother, Minturn, serve during World War Two?

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