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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Nora find within a two block radius of her apartment?
(a) Boutiques and delis.
(b) Chinese food.
(c) Her favorite restaurants.
(d) Every store and service.

2. In what city does Nora Ephron live?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Boston.

3. What does Nora compare the rapture of a great book to?
(a) A dance.
(b) A love affair.
(c) A diver.
(d) Nature.

4. What does Nora perceive the hunt to find cabbage strudel to be?
(a) A quest.
(b) A happy ending.
(c) A love affair.
(d) A journey.

5. What is the good that comes of Nora's husband's affair while she is pregnant?
(a) Nora finds a new man.
(b) Nora realizes the value of fiction.
(c) Nora has a swift divorce.
(d) Nora realizes she loves her child.

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

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

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

9. What is Nora always on the lookout for?
(a) The next great play.
(b) The next great movie.
(c) The next great actress.
(d) The next great book.

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

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

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

13. Who does the character of Sally most resemble in the film "When Harry Met Sally?"
(a) Katie Couric.
(b) Diane Sawyer.
(c) Nora Ephron.
(d) Meg Ryan.

14. How long was Nora married to her first husband?
(a) Six years.
(b) three years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) one year.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Nora question in regarding to her time with Bill?

4. What does Nora believe Bill did as a result of his affair with Monica?

5. What does Nora mention she is unable to finish because so is so enraptured by a book?

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