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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 professional background?
(a) Alice is a film editor.
(b) Alice is an English professor.
(c) Alice is a model and actress.
(d) Alice is a politician.

2. Which phrase best characterizes the relationship that Alice has with her parents?
(a) Alice admires her parents and models her own parenting style on theirs.
(b) Alice's parents solve all of her problems for her.
(c) Alice acts as caretaker to her parents.
(d) Alice is spoiled. She is the center of her parent's lives.

3. 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?
(a) "That's a dragon you can't slay."
(b) "That's bad."
(c) "They treat that like the common cold."
(d) "That's the worst kind."

4. Where does Calvin and Alice have a summer home?
(a) California.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Nova Scotia.
(d) Greenwich Village.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Calvin states that among married couples, the one who makes out the mortgage check is more like to do what?

2. Why does Alice buy a fur coat?

3. In chapter five, Trillin states that he once gives a speech at the annual dinner for which organization?

4. In chapter two, how does Calvin characterize his behavior during his second meeting with Alice?

5. What point is Alice trying to make when she says that someone "doesn't have a very nice life"?

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