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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the “Eyes on Photography” article characterize Lillian’s photography?
(a) Sly.
(b) Innocent.
(c) Candid.
(d) Sophisticated.

2. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?
(a) Lillian Preston’s parents.
(b) Lillian Preston.
(c) Sam Decker.
(d) Sam Decker and Lillian Preston among others.

3. How does Patricia Stokes characterize living with Lillian?
(a) Coziness.
(b) A hospitable home.
(c) Squalor.
(d) Comfort.

4. What does Lillian Preston try to photograph?
(a) People’s true faces.
(b) Intimate visions.
(c) Rare vistas.
(d) Unexpected moments.

5. What does Patricia Stokes say exasperated her about Lillian?
(a) Her loose friends.
(b) Her perpetual poverty.
(c) The darkroom in the bathroom.
(d) Her drug use.

6. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?
(a) Making cookies.
(b) Playing stickball.
(c) Watching a baseball game.
(d) Beating a rug with a stick.

7. What is the photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?
(a) Abortion.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Heroin addiction.
(d) Cancer treatment.

8. How did Samantha respond to Lillian’s news that they were going to move out of Ken’s house?
(a) With relief.
(b) With numbness.
(c) With sorrow.
(d) With fury.

9. What does Samantha say Lillian’s pictures prepared her for?
(a) Seeing how other people see the world.
(b) Coming to terms with death.
(c) Accepting rejection.
(d) Seeing the core of people in the real world.

10. What does Samantha say Item #60, Hands, resembles?
(a) The Girl with the Pearl Earring.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) The Sistine Chapel ceiling.

11. From what age does Samantha say she was functionally independent?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

12. How did Gabriel Wythe characterize Lillian’s photographs?
(a) Woven.
(b) Thorny.
(c) Delicately constructed.
(d) Clear-headed.

13. About how many photographs did Lillian take every day?
(a) 50.
(b) 150.
(c) 80.
(d) 30.

14. What occasion does the narrator give for commenting on Lillian Preston’s life and work?
(a) A biography.
(b) An obituary.
(c) A blurb request for a book.
(d) A museum exhibit.

15. How does Lillian characterize Nina’s personality?
(a) Dreary.
(b) Saturnine.
(c) Choleric.
(d) Enthusiastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How regularly did Lillian take self-portraits after 18 weeks?

2. What emotion did Lillian’s face show, when Ken asked her to move to Brooklyn with him?

3. What did Samantha want from Lillian, after they moved in with Grete and Kaja?

4. Who is narrating the novel in the beginning?

5. What kind of publication was Deborah putting together?

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