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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the woman who admits to having an affair with JFK?
(a) Marilyn.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Mimi.
(d) Nina.

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

4. What political issue does Nora wish Bill would speak out against?
(a) Global warming.
(b) The war.
(c) Gay rights.
(d) Civil rights.

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

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

7. What does the story of Nora and JFK bring reality to?
(a) Nora's own personal problems.
(b) The glamour and public intrigue of the White House.
(c) The trying times of the 1960's.
(d) The marriage between John and Jackie.

8. How many times does Nora enter her own kitchen?
(a) A couple of times a day.
(b) When a meal is being prepared.
(c) Nora does not cook.
(d) Hundreds of times a day

9. What does Nora say is easier to do once the experience has played out?
(a) See the humor in the moment.
(b) See the wisdom in the moment.
(c) See the opportunity in the moment.
(d) See the compassion in the moment.

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

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

12. What does Nora give to the reader in the Chapter "Where I Live?"
(a) Advice on how to advance their career.
(b) A visual description of her life.
(c) A piece of her heart.
(d) A snapshot of her ambitions.

13. What is the structure of Nora's apartment?
(a) Multi-floor.
(b) A rounded studio.
(c) Narrow and vertical.
(d) Horizontal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora cause the reader to think about as they read about where she lives?

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

3. Which "Bill" is Nora referring to in the chapter "Me and Bill?"

4. What can Nora find within a two block radius of her apartment?

5. If Nora was propositioned by JFK, what is the one thing she would not have been able to do?

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