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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finish this sentence: Calvin states that if he works in a corporate job ...
(a) Alice competes with him for a job.
(b) Alice prevents him from climbing the corporate ladder.
(c) Alice helps him prepare for sales presentations.
(d) Alice helps him move up the corporate ladder.

2. What is the name of the camp where Alice volunteers to work with seriously ill children?
(a) The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
(b) SEEK.
(c) Connecticut Woods.
(d) Transitions.

3. According to Calvin, what is the definition of an intellectual?
(a) Someone who knows the definition of holistic.
(b) Someone who knows the definition of holistic. Someone who translates fluently from the Toltec.
(c) Someone whose instinct is to analyze anything that happens and try to make some sense of it.
(d) Someone who knows how to translate heuristics.

4. What is the SEEK program acronym stand for?
(a) Simplify Education, Equality and Knowledge.
(b) Strides for Education, Equality, and Knowledge.
(c) Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge.
(d) Save Each and Every Kid.

5. What is Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow?
(a) A tax theory.
(b) After a certain level of income, the government should take everything.
(c) Things like perfume, clothing, and jewelry should be purchased with money from her own paychecks.
(d) Any money not spent on a luxury you can't afford is the equivalent of windfall income.

6. Which of the following statements about Alice is true?
(a) She promotes the idea of cigarette lounges in New York City.
(b) She hates cigarettes.
(c) She is a chain-smoker.
(d) She fights for smoker's rights.

7. Calvin states that among married couples, the one who makes out the mortgage check is more like to do what?
(a) Be more relaxed about spending money.
(b) Be more successful.
(c) Be more cautious about spending money.
(d) Be more generous.

8. When Calvin and Alice fid themselves in a hotel room that is not as they expect, what do they do?
(a) They make the best of it.
(b) They complain to hotel management.
(c) They move to another hotel.
(d) They check out and immediately go home.

9. What is the Alice Tax?
(a) An idea to place a limit on how much money people keep for themselves.
(b) A fine assessed to her children when they behave badly.
(c) An idea for raising funds through college alumni associations.
(d) A fee that Alice charges her husband for reading his rough drafts.

10. Why does Alice buy a fur coat?
(a) To wear on a trip to Alaska.
(b) To wear to a fashion show.
(c) To wear during the cold Nova Scotia winters.
(d) To wear during the cold New York City winters.

11. Which governor does Alice tease about being a Republican?
(a) Governor Olympia Snowe.
(b) Governor George Pataki.
(c) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(d) Governor Mario Cuomo.

12. In chapter five, which person is mentioned as having volunteered at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp?
(a) Julia Roberts.
(b) Emma Roberts.
(c) Paul Newman.
(d) Julie Andrews.

13. Trillin states that his goddaughter marries into a family with some involvement in what kind of industry?
(a) Cigarette.
(b) Automotive.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Pharmaceutical.

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

15. In chapter five, Alice is quoted as saying the following about her mother:
(a) " ... a role model to me and to women everywhere."
(b) " ... the most loving and devoted mother in the world."
(c) " ... an intellectual in a time when women are only expected to be pretty."
(d) " ... the least cool person I have ever known."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what publication is Alice's op-ed article on the subject of a smoking ban in New York City published?

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

3. According to Calvin, Alice believes which one of the following statements to be true?

4. According to Calvin, when is Alice at her "bossiest"?

5. How old are Alice's daughters when she has her first surgery following her cancer diagnosis?

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