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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family relative moves into Nora's building?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her niece.

2. What is the second stage of parenting?
(a) the toddler years.
(b) adolescence.
(c) Young adulthood.
(d) pre-teen.

3. Why does Nora not need a purse for a time?
(a) She uses a backpack instead.
(b) She works from home.
(c) She rebels.
(d) She carries very little around with her.

4. Who does adolescence change?
(a) The parent and spouse.
(b) The parent and the neighbors.
(c) The child and parent.
(d) The child and siblings.

5. What is the story of Nora's apartment essentially a story about?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Love.
(c) Loss.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has nothing to do with age?

2. What does Nora Ephron say she wishes she would have enjoyed and appreciated in her life?

3. According to Nora, what did parents need to do once the "The Parenting Movement" began?

4. Why does it seem pointless to answer honestly if a friend says you look great?

5. What feeling does Nora's purse give to women everywhere who cannot seem to make traditional purses work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Lee Bailey?

2. Describe the second stage of parenting?

3. What happens to Nora as she throws herself into the culinary arts?

4. Who are the people that move in and that Nora meets in her building and what happens with these relationships?

5. What are Nora's thoughts on exercise?

6. What does Nora think of manicures?

7. What does Nora not like about her own purse?

8. What does Nora do while she tries out recipes from her favorite cookbooks?

9. What is the symbolism of Nora's apartment?

10. What does the new purse Nora gets after returning from Paris look like?

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