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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 the name of Alice's friend and colleague who has ovarian cancer?
(a) Jane Maher.
(b) Maggie Smith.
(c) Annie Navasky.
(d) Mina Shaughnessy.

2. What is the name of the camp where Alice volunteers to work with seriously ill children?
(a) SEEK.
(b) Transitions.
(c) The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
(d) Connecticut Woods.

3. In chapter three, who writes the article that accompanies the fashion spread in which Alice is featured?
(a) Alice Trillin.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Mina Shaughnessy.
(d) Nora Ephron.

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

5. What is the name of the City College program in which Alice teaches under-prepared students?
(a) CITY.
(b) CUNY.
(c) SEEK.
(d) STAT.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements about Alice is true?

2. What is the SEEK program acronym stand for?

3. Why does Alice buy a fur coat?

4. 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?

5. At which institution does Alice teach English in her mid-twenties?

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