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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ben Brierly torment Marianne Faithfull?
(a) He had numerous infidelities.
(b) He would disappear on her.
(c) He was always trying to get her to quit drugs.
(d) He squandered their money.

2. How does Faithfull characterize life without drugs?
(a) Exhilarating.
(b) Boring.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What unpleasantness arose in 1970 regarding John Dunbar?
(a) A financial scandal.
(b) A paternity suit from a young serving girl.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A divorce case.

4. What did Faithfull's mother say about art?
(a) It was a true aristocracy.
(b) It was the most expensive habit.
(c) It was just another form of self-sacrifice.
(d) It was the brightest form of self-destruction.

5. What did 'Lucifer Rising' do for Faithfull's image?
(a) Made her look fiendish.
(b) Rehabilitated her.
(c) Bankrupted it.
(d) Established her creative genius.

6. What stopped after Faithfull and Jagger established a domestic life at Cheyne Walk?
(a) They stopped having sex.
(b) They started writing their memoirs.
(c) The Stones stopped recording.
(d) Faithfull got pregnant.

7. Who was Ahmet?
(a) Mick Jagger's agent.
(b) The Rolling Stones' publicist.
(c) Faithfull's editor.
(d) The head of Atlantic Records.

8. What show was Marianne Faithfull in that she got great reviews?
(a) Threepenny Opera.
(b) Broken English.
(c) The Homecoming.
(d) The Sisters.

9. What did Ben Brierly and Marianne Faithfull have in common with Sid Vicious?
(a) Drug deals.
(b) Artist friends.
(c) Recording contracts.
(d) Society friends.

10. Where did Faithfull go from New York to clean herself up?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Mexico.

11. Why does Faithfull say she overdosed on pills?
(a) She wanted to hurt Jagger.
(b) She thought she should be dead.
(c) She didn't know she was overdosing.
(d) She thought she could transcend herself.

12. What did Ahmet say about Marianne Faithfull?
(a) She was the heart of the Rolling Stones.
(b) She had to be cut out of Jagger's life.
(c) She was a druggie.
(d) She would jeopardize everything.

13. What made Bianca attractive to Mick Jagger?
(a) She was sober.
(b) She was young.
(c) She was poor.
(d) She was glamorous.

14. Who is 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' about, according to Faithfull?
(a) Anita Pallenberg.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) Brian Jones.
(d) Her.

15. How did Oliver Musker demonstrate his devotion to Marianne Faithfull?
(a) He took her to Bexley and visited every day.
(b) He helped her get custody of her child.
(c) He bought her drugs.
(d) He wrote songs about her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Faithfull say she identified with Ophelia?

2. What was Faithfull's response when Mick Jagger married Bianca Jagger?

3. How does Faithfull characterize Jagger's lifestyle in the early 1970s?

4. What was the Rolling Stones' relationship with the Beatles by the late 1960s?

5. What does Faithfull say she had done by using drugs so willfully?

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