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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are Alice's daughters when she has her first surgery following her cancer diagnosis?
(a) Fourteen and eighteen.
(b) Four and seven.
(c) Twelve and nine.
(d) Thirty-five and thirty-eight.

2. What is the name of the magazine that hosts the party where Calvin first meets Alice?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Life.
(c) Times Magazine.
(d) Monocle.

3. Which phrase best describes Alice's religious views?
(a) Alice is outspoken about her views on the importance of attending church as a family.
(b) Alice is somewhere between uninterested and hostile when it comes to religion.
(c) Alice converts to Catholicism as an adult.
(d) Alice is a devout Jew who raises her children with traditional religious values.

4. According to Calvin, what is the definition of an intellectual?
(a) Someone who knows how to translate heuristics.
(b) Someone who knows the definition of holistic. Someone who translates fluently from the Toltec.
(c) Someone who knows the definition of holistic.
(d) Someone whose instinct is to analyze anything that happens and try to make some sense of it.

5. Alice tells her husband that he peaks in which year?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Calvin characterize his father-in-law?

2. What is the Alice Tax?

3. In what publication is Alice's op-ed article on the subject of a smoking ban in New York City published?

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

5. According to Calvin, his father is appalled by what kind of people?

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