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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Bill lie about that Nora rationalizes away?
(a) Gennifer.
(b) Linda.
(c) Hillary.
(d) Monica.

3. What author is Nora reading when she writes the chapter "Rapture?"
(a) Michael Crichton.
(b) Amy Bloom.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Michael Chabon.

4. 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 Nora is too star struck.
(d) Because someone is talking over her.

5. What does Nora mention she is unable to finish because so is so enraptured by a book?
(a) Editing a movie.
(b) A meal.
(c) Writing a movie script.
(d) Cleaning her home.

6. What does Nora believe Bill did as a result of his affair with Monica?
(a) Throw away the Presidency.
(b) Throw away hope for a nation.
(c) Throw away a great woman.
(d) Throw away their relationship.

7. After Nora sees Bill on television again, what does she think to herself?
(a) She feels pity for him.
(b) She'll move on entirely and without forgiveness.
(c) She'll give him another chance.
(d) She'll forgive him but move on.

8. What does Nora offer the reader as she dispenses her advice and wisdom?
(a) Answers.
(b) An escape.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Clarity.

9. What does Nora savor after she has found the strudel?
(a) A hearty meal.
(b) Victory.
(c) Strudel.
(d) Pride.

10. How does Nora feel when the story of Bill and Monica comes out?
(a) Justified.
(b) Angry.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Hurt.

11. What kind of advice does Nora mostly dispense in the chapter "What I Wish I'd Known"?
(a) Advice on self-help.
(b) Advice on money.
(c) Advice on aging.
(d) Advice on emails.

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

13. According to Nora, what keeps people going as they search for something they have lost?
(a) Pride.
(b) Regret.
(c) Hope.
(d) Remorse.

14. 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) Sleepless in Seattle.
(b) Silkwood.
(c) Julie & Julia.
(d) When Harry Met Sally.

15. Where does the book she is reading in "Rapture" take her?
(a) 1930's Montana.
(b) 1940's New York.
(c) 1930's New Jersey.
(d) 1960's Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what political circumstance does Nora Ephron refuse to support Bill?

2. What is the biggest pro to living in a small apartment in New York?

3. Why does Nora believe she was never propositioned by JFK?

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

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

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