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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alice's phrase for living in surroundings that are less than nice?
(a) Living like a graduate student.
(b) Living in squalor.
(c) Living in a tree house.
(d) A living nightmare.

2. What is Alice's reasoning for agreeing to be photographed in a fashion issue of a magazine?
(a) Alice thinks it helps her launch a modeling career.
(b) Alice thinks it helps her parents receive better treatment by the nurses at the nursing home where they live.
(c) Alice thinks it is a good way to make money.
(d) Alice thinks it helps her husband receive better reviews of his work by critics.

3. Trillin states that while on a trip to a foreign country, the main subject for discussion by American tourists is ...
(a) How much it snows.
(b) How much it rains.
(c) How much a melon cost.
(d) How much a hotel room cost.

4. In chapter two, how much time passes between Calvin's first and second meeting with Alice?
(a) Two days.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

5. What is one of Alice's pet peeves?
(a) Getting speeding tickets.
(b) Traveling to foreign countries.
(c) Spending money on clothes.
(d) Cigarette companies that give young people the impression that smoking is cool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of the poem at the introduction of chapter three?

2. What does Calvin's father do for a living?

3. According to Calvin, he never stops trying to do what?

4. What advice does Calvin receive in the 1960s from an older writer at work?

5. What is the first thing that strikes Calvin about Alice when he sees her for the first time?

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