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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tragedy of lost food, according to Nora?
(a) It is something that average cooks cannot replicate.
(b) It destroys one's love affair with food.
(c) It becomes only a memory.
(d) It is only a matter of finding, but the finding is challenging.

2. Where did Nora's first husband take her in an attempt to patch together their failed marriage?
(a) South America.
(b) Australia.
(c) Asia.
(d) Africa.

3. How does Nora relate to the characters in her favorite novels?
(a) She imagines writing a movie script for their stories.
(b) She imagines being a part of their world.
(c) She imagines writing their stories.
(d) She imagines finding a solution to their problems.

4. During the writing of the script of what movie does Nora come face to face with a Rorschach, meaning that when you ask a group of people about a particular event, everyone will have a different answer?
(a) When Harry Met Sally.
(b) Sleepless in Seattle.
(c) Silkwood.
(d) Julie & Julia.

5. What newspaper is Nora given the change to write for, realizing her dream of being a journalist at the age of twenty-two?
(a) The New York Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The New York Magazine.
(d) The New Yorker.

6. What does Nora say everyone experiences?
(a) A moment of clarity that they did not act on.
(b) Those moments where they wish they would have known something.
(c) Bad advice from well meaning people.
(d) Good advice that was not taken.

7. Which "Bill" is Nora referring to in the chapter "Me and Bill?"
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Bill Buckley.
(c) Bill Cosby.
(d) Bill Clinton.

8. What does Nora do with the classics?
(a) She decorates her home with them.
(b) She reads them over and over.
(c) She keeps them on her bookshelf.
(d) She makes scripts from them.

9. What magazine article does Nora write when she realizes her life has changed and she is now a writer?
(a) A magazine article about being a New Yorker.
(b) A magazine article about weight issues.
(c) A magazine article about having small breasts.
(d) A magazine article about living in Los Angeles.

10. When was the last time Nora was able to find cabbage strudel?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1985.

11. What does Nora infuse throughout the chapter "What I Wish I'd Known" that makes it easy to read?
(a) Self-deprecation.
(b) Humor.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Ambivalence.

12. If Nora was propositioned by JFK, what is the one thing she would not have been able to do?
(a) Keep it a secret.
(b) Wear perfect hair and makeup daily.
(c) Buy a new wardrobe.
(d) Keep up personal appearances.

13. Why can't Nora hear the question that JFK asks her directly?
(a) Because The Speaker of the House answers JFK first.
(b) Because of the noise of the heliocopter.
(c) Because someone is talking over her.
(d) Because Nora is too star struck.

14. What did Nora's mother die of?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Cirrhosis.
(c) An overdose of sleeping pills.
(d) Heart disease.

15. What happens after Nora's first request for cabbage strudel is denied by the owner of Andre's bakery?
(a) Nora's friend demands the strudel for her.
(b) Andre tells Nora the strudel is officially off the menu.
(c) Nora gets the recipe to make it herself.
(d) Andre opens a second bakery with the strudel.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Nora sees Bill on television again, what does she think to herself?

2. What does the story of Nora and JFK bring reality to?

3. What has happened in New York that does not detour Nora Ephron from living there?

4. What is the structure of Nora's apartment?

5. What was one of Nora's favorite foods?

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