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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 theme of the poem at the introduction of chapter three?
(a) Alice's intellectualism.
(b) Alice's 61st birthday.
(c) Alice's views on taxation.
(d) Alice's 50th birthday.

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

3. In chapter five, an article on what subject in the Times enraged Alice?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A cigarette smoking lounge.
(d) A cigarette smoking ban.

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

5. According to Calvin, which one of the following qualities does NOT characterize his wife Alice?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Shy.
(c) Smart.
(d) Direct.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter three, Calvin includes a quote from a friend of Alice who speaks at her memorial service. Who is this person?

2. Which woman serve as a personal and professional mentor to Alice?

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

4. In chapter one, Calvin includes an excerpt from a letter that Alice writes to a woman who is victimized. What Shakespeare play does she reference in her letter?

5. Calvin states that he never sees Alice read which type of magazine?

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