View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes "Of Dragons and Garden Peas"?
(a) A children's book that Alice reads to her daughters.
(b) A New Yorker piece written by Calvin Trillin.
(c) A New England Journal of Medicine piece written by Alice.
(d) A film that Alice produces for PBS.

2. What point is Alice trying to make when she says that someone "doesn't have a very nice life"?
(a) People who "don't have a very nice life" are obscenely rich.
(b) People who "don't have a very nice life" are not as lucky as Alice and Calvin.
(c) People who "don't have a very nice life" are financially well off, but physically ill people who "don't have a very nice life" ware not as attractive as she.
(d) People who "don't have a very nice life" are obscenely rich.

3. Why does Calvin not want to pay the contractor more money than he originally quotes for their home project?
(a) He breaks the banister.
(b) The estimated should be correct before starting the project.
(c) He does a bad job on the project.
(d) He steals Alice's fur coat.

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

5. What is one of the most negative words that Alice uses to describe a person?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Passive.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Aggressive.

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

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

8. Which phrase best describes Alice's religious views?
(a) Alice is a devout Jew who raises her children with traditional religious values.
(b) Alice is outspoken about her views on the importance of attending church as a family.
(c) Alice converts to Catholicism as an adult.
(d) Alice is somewhere between uninterested and hostile when it comes to religion.

9. What word does Calvin use to describe the hotel room about which he argues with his wife while on a business trip?
(a) Spartan.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Spacious.
(d) Luxurious.

10. 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.

11. Trillin states that he is brought up in which city?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

12. Where does Calvin and Alice have a summer home?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) California.
(d) Nova Scotia.

13. According to Calvin, when is Alice at her "bossiest"?
(a) When she renovates her house.
(b) When she tells Calvin that his work on a book is not acceptable.
(c) When she is at work.
(d) When she tells her daughters that smoking is not an option for them to consider.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Trillin, what does Alice want him to do with the money he saves during college?

2. Finish this sentence: Calvin states that if he works in a corporate job ...

3. What is Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow?

4. What is the name of the City College program in which Alice teaches under-prepared students?

5. Where does Calvin and Alice purchase their first home?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 758 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample