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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parenting in Three Stages.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of maintenance overwhelms Nora?
(a) Body maintenance.
(b) Skin maintenance.
(c) Hair maintenance.
(d) Fashion maintenance.

2. What is not guaranteed in a difficult recipe?
(a) Taste.
(b) Quality ingredients.
(c) Care and craftsmanship.
(d) Proper measurements.

3. What is the third stage of being a parent?
(a) When the child marries.
(b) When the child goes to college.
(c) When the child leaves the home.
(d) When the child has children.

4. What does Nora use as daily skin maintenance?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Potions in bottles and jars.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Photo-facials.

5. According to Nora Ephron, what kind of advice helps you as a parent through the adolescent years?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) Advice from trusted community doctors.
(c) There is no advice that helps.
(d) Advice from women who have children the same age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora say the struggle to read as you get older causes the need for?

2. What does Nora claim that the obsession with maintenance of physical appearance is trying to ultimately do?

3. How, according to The Parenting Movement, do your parenting skills affect your children?

4. Who does Nora have imaginary conversations with?

5. What has nothing to do with age?

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