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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 does Abigail do for a living?
(a) She is a food critic.
(b) She is a legal-services attorney for children.
(c) She is a model.
(d) She is a TV reporter.

2. In chapter seven, Trillin recalls the following line from a radio sitcom he uses to listen to as a boy.
(a) "'Tain't funny, McGee."
(b) "Having a family intellectual available comes in handy when you need to translate words like 'holistic' or 'heuristics.'"
(c) "There is nothing funny about a dietitian in sensible shoes."
(d) "Wowsers!"

3. What does a neighbor say to Calvin a few weeks after Alice's surgery in 1976?
(a) Meditation and yoga can cure most cancers.
(b) Alice should quit smoking.
(c) She's going to need to change her lifestyle.
(d) God bless Alice.

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

5. According to Trillin, when Alice is being wheeled into the operating room for her bypass surgery, she ...
(a) Is hysterically crying.
(b) Is playing solitare, her favorite game.
(c) Is grilling the doctor on his political affiliation.
(d) Is smiling and enthusiastic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Calvin, Alice has especially strong views about which of the following subjects?

3. Which one of the following statements is true?

4. Where does Alice spend her childhood?

5. Chapter eight begins with an excerpt from which book?

(see the answer key)

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