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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is not easy to do as one ages?
(a) Hear.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Write.
(d) Read.

3. What does Nora Ephron's new purse bring her?
(a) Organizational skills.
(b) Clarity.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Style.

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

5. How, according to The Parenting Movement, do your parenting skills affect your children?
(a) Your parenting skills affect who your child becomes.
(b) Your parenting skills are a result of who you are.
(c) Your parenting skills do not affect who your child becomes.
(d) Your parenting skills are a result of how you were raised.

6. How does Nora feel about her declining eyesight?
(a) Accepting.
(b) Humored.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Saddened.

7. What happens to Nora as she exercises?
(a) She discovers that she is uncoordinated.
(b) She gets hurt.
(c) She loses weight.
(d) She sweats indecently.

8. What does Nora say the struggle to read as you get older causes the need for?
(a) Glasses.
(b) A magnifying glass.
(c) Bigger font.
(d) Contacts.

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

10. Where in New York do Nora and Nick find a new apartment after Apthorp?
(a) Upper West side.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) Central Park.
(d) Upper East side.

11. What is the story of Nora's apartment essentially a story about?
(a) Loss.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Kindness.

12. What family relative moves into Nora's building?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her niece.

13. When does the job of parenting end?
(a) After the age of 18.
(b) When the child begins adolescence.
(c) The death of the parent.
(d) When the child marries.

14. What kind of job is parenting?
(a) A humbling job.
(b) A lifetime job.
(c) An inspiring job.
(d) A difficult job.

15. What subject does Nora Ephron provide humorous insight into?
(a) Being a woman in love.
(b) Being an aging woman.
(c) Being a woman about to marry.
(d) Being a woman expecting a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Nora's favorite chefs?

2. What might some consider cooking to be?

3. What is Nora's most recent attempt at working out?

4. What happens in Nora Ephron's marriage as she is experimenting in the culinary world?

5. What do the contents of Nora's purse most resemble?

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