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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 is a cook's style very similar to?
(a) The way they lead their life.
(b) They way they fall in love.
(c) They way they treat themselves.
(d) They way they treat others.

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

3. What is the name of the manager of Nora's building?
(a) Barbara Rosetti.
(b) Barbara Ryland.
(c) Barbara Ross.
(d) Barbara Rosslyn.

4. What happens to Nora as she exercises?
(a) She discovers that she is uncoordinated.
(b) She gets hurt.
(c) She loses weight.
(d) She sweats indecently.

5. What does Nora Ephron say she wishes she would have enjoyed and appreciated in her life?
(a) Her younger and more attractive hands.
(b) Her younger and more attractive neck.
(c) Her younger and more attractive decolletage.
(d) Her younger and more attractive derriere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nora's most recent attempt at working out?

2. Where can you look for advice about parenting, but be advised that there are many different opinions?

3. What do women seldom do as they get older?

4. What changes in Nora's life as her cooking style changes?

5. What subject matter does Nora Ephron refuse to discuss in her book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of a job is parenting?

2. What does Nora think of manicures?

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

4. What is significant about Lee Bailey?

5. Describe the second stage of parenting?

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

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

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

9. What are Nora's thoughts on exercise?

10. What does Nora think of unwanted hairs and hair removal?

(see the answer keys)

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