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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Calvin's youngest daughter?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Isabelle Alice.
(d) Maggie.

2. What reasons does Calvin give for stating that "Alice doesn't look like who she is"?
(a) Alice is seriously pampered and snooty in high school.
(b) Alice is not pampered or snooty, despite the fact that she grows up in an affluent town and attends a prestigious college.
(c) Alice looks like a dietitian, but in actuality she is a talented writer.
(d) Alice is known as the class beauty and most popular cheerleader in high school.

3. What type of child does Alice gravitate toward at the the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp?
(a) The child who needs the most help.
(b) The child who has the biggest chip on his or her shoulder.
(c) The child who is the loudest.
(d) The child who has the most fun.

4. What is Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow?
(a) A tax theory.
(b) Any money not spent on a luxury you can't afford is the equivalent of windfall income.
(c) Things like perfume, clothing, and jewelry should be purchased with money from her own paychecks.
(d) After a certain level of income, the government should take everything.

5. What does Mina do to cheer herself up, and to lift the spirits of those around her?
(a) She plays the piano.
(b) She dresses nicely.
(c) She plants flowers.
(d) She plays inspirational songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase best describes Alice's religious views?

2. In chapter four, an encounter is described taking place in an elevator between Alice and a young boy with cancer. What does he say about her type of cancer?

3. What does a neighbor say to Calvin a few weeks after Alice's surgery in 1976?

4. Of the following, which one best describes Calvin and Alice's first home?

5. Where does Alice once work?

(see the answer key)

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