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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the magazine that hosts the party where Calvin first meets Alice?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Times Magazine.
(c) Monocle.
(d) Life.

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

3. In chapter two, how does Calvin characterize his behavior during his second meeting with Alice?
(a) A winning job interview.
(b) A boring college lecture.
(c) A desperate comedy routine.
(d) A rough draft in need of edits.

4. What does Alice's father do for a living?
(a) Alice's father is a coal miner.
(b) Alice's father is a researcher.
(c) Alice's father is a vending machine repairman.
(d) Alice's father is a self-taught inventor.

5. According to Calvin, what is Alice wearing when he sees her for the first time?
(a) A black hat.
(b) A red hat.
(c) A white hat.
(d) A yellow hat.

6. In what year does Alice die?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1990.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2001.

7. What is the first thing that strikes Calvin about Alice when he sees her for the first time?
(a) Alice is talkative.
(b) Alice looks more alive than anyone he sees.
(c) Alice is opinionated.
(d) Alice is so very pretty.

8. In Calvin's second poem in chapter three, he likens Alice to which of the following?
(a) A lass from Generation X.
(b) A fast driver.
(c) A World War II nurse.
(d) A dietitian in sensible shoes.

9. What is Alice's mother doing for a living when she meets Alice's father?
(a) Alice's mother is a secretary.
(b) Alice's mother is a teacher.
(c) Alice's mother is a model.
(d) Alice's mother is a novelist.

10. Calvin states that he never sees Alice read which type of magazine?
(a) Literary.
(b) Medical.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Finance.

11. Who writes the condolence letter that makes Calvin laugh?
(a) Roger Wilkins.
(b) Dick Francis.
(c) Mina Shaughnessy.
(d) Richard Harris.

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

13. According to Calvin, what leads to his success in courting Alice?
(a) His dumb luck and one or two deliberate moves.
(b) His reluctance to speak.
(c) His pipe smoking and fame as a writer.
(d) His dumb luck and good looks.

14. What reasons does Calvin give for stating that "Alice doesn't look like who she is"?
(a) Alice is not pampered or snooty, despite the fact that she grows up in an affluent town and attends a prestigious college.
(b) Alice looks like a dietitian, but in actuality she is a talented writer.
(c) Alice is known as the class beauty and most popular cheerleader in high school.
(d) Alice is seriously pampered and snooty in high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Calvin, which of the following best describes Alice at age fifty?

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

3. According to Calvin, he never stops trying to do what?

4. Calvin claims that the first time he sees Alice, he detects what quality about her heritage?

5. What is the name of the Calvin's eldest daughter?

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