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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nora think the advice she gives might not be heard?
(a) Because people learn from their own mistakes.
(b) Because people do not trust advice.
(c) Because most people are stubborn.
(d) Because people rebel against advice.

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

3. What does Nora cause the reader to think about as they read about where she lives?
(a) Where they live themselves.
(b) Where their friends live.
(c) Where they want to live.
(d) Why they should live in New York.

4. How does Nora feel about her divorces?
(a) She is sad but moves on.
(b) She feels free of obligation.
(c) She is deeply affected.
(d) She is reminiscent of the past.

5. What is Nora's job in the White House?
(a) Wait staff.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Intern.
(d) Typist.

6. What is the biggest pro to living in a small apartment in New York?
(a) Less space to clean.
(b) Less space to manage.
(c) Less space for out of town visitors.
(d) Less space to fill.

7. What leads to Nora's personal story of being an intern at the White House while JFK was President?
(a) Her college asks her for a review of her internship.
(b) She tries to publish a White House memoir.
(c) She publicly admits to having an affair with JFK.
(d) She prints a copy of a news article on Mimi Fahnestock's affair.

8. What is Nora's neighborhood like?
(a) It is clean and quiet.
(b) It is near Central Park.
(c) There are all types of stores and services.
(d) There are many urban projects.

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

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

11. How far along was Nora in her pregnancy when she learns that her second husband is in love with another woman?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Seven months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.

12. How does Nora handle Bill's lies regarding Gennifer?
(a) She rationalized them away.
(b) She knows the truth.
(c) She discredits them.
(d) She goes into denial.

13. What has happened in New York that does not detour Nora Ephron from living there?
(a) 9/11.
(b) Neighborhood prostitution rings.
(c) The rise of the crime rate.
(d) Political corruption.

14. 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.

15. What does most of the advice that Nora offers fall under the umbrella of?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Education.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Benefits of age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nora impressed by when she sees Bill on television?

2. Why is Nora so happy about the cabbage strudel?

3. In what city does Nora Ephron live?

4. Where did Nora claim her time was spent while she was at the White House?

5. What does Nora say comes with age?

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