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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which statement best describes Alice's upbringing?
(a) Alice is spoiled. She grows up in a house with a backyard swimming pool and a basement bowling alley.
(b) Alice is a pampered and wealthy girl who is captain of her cheerleading team.
(c) Alice is not popular in school. She is the class brain and is virtually never asked out.
(d) Alice is poor and lives in squalor in a basement apartment in New York City.

2. In chapter two, how much time passes between Calvin's first and second meeting with Alice?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two days.
(d) Two weeks.

3. Who writes, "I am known among my friends and family as an incorrigible, even ridiculous optimist"?
(a) Alice.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Calvin.

4. Which statement most closely resembles Alice's views, according to Trillin?
(a) If your child is in a school play and you don't go to every performance, the county comes and takes the child.
(b) If your child is in a school play, critique them after each performance to help them improve.
(c) If your child is in a school play and you go to every performance, your child never learns to be independent.
(d) If your child is in a school play, sit in the back row so you don't distract or embarrass your child.

5. In the days when he is renovating his home, Trillin has this quote above his typewriter.
(a) "Writing doesn't pay."
(b) "Money doesn't grow on trees."
(c) "Time is money."
(d) "Words Is Money."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of the poem at the introduction of chapter three?

2. In chapter seven, Trillin includes an excerpt from a New Yorker article written by Alice. What is the subject of that article?

3. In chapter seven, Calvin states that Alice consideres moving to which state to be closer to her daughters?

4. Who says, "She wants to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness ..."?

5. What is the name of the club where Alice sometimes has lunch with her friend Wally Popolizio?

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