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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symptom lingered after Lillian’s weekend in jail?
(a) Double vision.
(b) Shaking hands.
(c) Panic attacks.
(d) Depression.

2. What did Mr. Wythe say Lillian was afraid of?
(a) Succeeding.
(b) Losing her daughter.
(c) Protecting her work.
(d) Being taken advantage of.

3. What act of devotion does Samantha say her grandmother performed for Lillian?
(a) Telling her grandfather stories and hiding things to keep him and Lillian on good terms.
(b) Sending her money she never spoke about.
(c) Taking care of her boxes of contact sheets and prints for years.
(d) Going into debt to buy things for her and Samantha.

4. How did Lillian’s and Samantha’s household change after Lillian’s arrest?
(a) They were never home.
(b) Nina was a constant houseguest.
(c) Lillian stopped working at home.
(d) They were almost always silent.

5. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?
(a) Her mother snuck up on her when she did not think she was being watched.
(b) Her mother never asked her to take off her clothes.
(c) Her mother rewarded her for remaining unclothed in summer.
(d) Her mother begged her to pose nude for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Samantha’s friendship with Kaja?

2. Why did Samantha not recognize her mother when Lillian came to pick her up after school after getting out of jail?

3. What did Sam Decker tell Samantha he took pictures of?

4. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?

5. How did Samantha put up a protest against how things were going for her in junior high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian reconnect with her high school friend Sam Decker?

2. How was Samantha’s school career altered by the Supreme Court verdict in Nina’s case?

3. How did Nina and Lillian approach their charges differently?

4. How did it come about that Lillian realized that she was sick?

5. What was Lillian’s summer without Lillian like?

6. How did the controversy about the Samantha series affect Samantha’s schooling?

7. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

8. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?

9. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

10. How did Lillian respond to Samantha, when Samantha asked her to have another show of her work?

(see the answer keys)

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