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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alice buy a fur coat?
(a) To wear during the cold Nova Scotia winters.
(b) To wear on a trip to Alaska.
(c) To wear to a fashion show.
(d) To wear during the cold New York City winters.

2. Calvin states that he and his wife disagree about which of the following details from the night when they first meet?
(a) The hat and the punch bowl.
(b) The food and the beverages.
(c) The hat and the pipe smoke.
(d) The pipe smoke and the glow.

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

4. According to Calvin, why does Alice take out bank loans in her twenties?
(a) Alice takes out bank loans to finance her work with disadvantaged students.
(b) Alice takes out bank loans to invest in her father's vending machine invention.
(c) Alice takes out bank loans to tide her father over when he is low on money.
(d) Alice takes out bank loans to pay for her cancer treatment.

5. What is the headline in the magazine article in which Alice is featured as a model at the age of thirty-five?
(a) The beauty and the brain.
(b) The picture of health.
(c) About Alice.
(d) College instructor, mother and wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Calvin keep one of the photos of Alice from the article in chapter three?

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

3. What is Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow?

4. Where does Alice's father grow up?

5. According to Calvin, which of the following best describes Alice at age fifty?

(see the answer key)

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