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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which one of the following statements is true?
(a) Mina Shaughnessy is surgeon.
(b) Mina Shaughnessy is fourteen years older than Alice.
(c) Mina Shaughnessy is a medical technician.
(d) Mina Shaughnessy is a dietitian.

3. In chapter eight, Trillin reveals that, like Alice, he undergoes which surgery?
(a) A bypass operation.
(b) An organ transplant.
(c) A facelift.
(d) A foot amputation.

4. Which one of the following values does Alice NOT teach her children, according to Trillin?
(a) Worry about being kind and generous to people.
(b) Find meaning in the work you do.
(c) Do not over-value financial success.
(d) Smoking is a personal freedom that should be defended and protected.

5. Trillin characterizes the relationship between Alice and his daughter Sarah as:
(a) Nothing but harmonious.
(b) Complicated.
(c) A hornet's nest.
(d) Nonexistent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter seven begins with a New Yorker excerpt in which he discusses the following:

2. Where does Alice spend her childhood?

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?

4. According to Calvin, what is the definition of an intellectual?

5. In an e-mail, what does Alice say she is watching on TV the day after her daughter Abigail's wedding?

(see the answer key)

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