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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 one of the following statements is true?
(a) For years, Calvin does not think or talk about his conversation with Alice's surgeon in 1976.
(b) For years, whenever Calvin is in an airport, he breaks down in tears.
(c) For years, Calvin tries to convince Alice that she needs to quit smoking.
(d) For years, Calvin worries that he too gets cancer and that their daughters are orphaned.

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

3. 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) "Wowsers!"
(c) "There is nothing funny about a dietitian in sensible shoes."
(d) "Having a family intellectual available comes in handy when you need to translate words like 'holistic' or 'heuristics.'"

4. How does Calvin characterize his father-in-law?
(a) Alice's father is a sweet, optimistic man.
(b) Alice's father is pessimistic and irresponsible.
(c) Alice's father is realistic, responsible man.
(d) Alice's father is cold and tightfisted with his money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alice spend her childhood?

2. At the end of chapter three, Calvin tells a story about Alice in which she makes an annual trip to which of the following locations?

3. Where does Alice once work?

4. In chapter three, Calvin includes an excerpt from an article that Alice writes about her parents. Which of the following statements summarizes the point makes in the excerpt?

5. Why does Alice write a letter to Bruno Navasky?

(see the answer key)

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