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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 sister.
(b) Her niece.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does Nora claim that the obsession with maintenance of physical appearance is trying to ultimately do?
(a) Turn back the clock.
(b) Transform oneself.
(c) Lead to vitality.
(d) Lead to better health.

3. What does Nora want to happen even though she does not like to exercise?
(a) Get flexible.
(b) Improve her stamina.
(c) Get into shape.
(d) Improve her strength.

4. What changes as Nora moves from an apartment she loves to a place where she lives?
(a) Her mode of transportation.
(b) Her relationship.
(c) Her life.
(d) Her job.

5. What does the effects of eyesight going bad affect?
(a) Reading books.
(b) Being able to read telephone books, menus, and pill bottles.
(c) Writing novels.
(d) Almost everything a person does.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of job is parenting?

2. What is the first stage of parenting?

3. How does Nora's cooking style change?

4. What does Nora say the struggle to read as you get older causes the need for?

5. Who does adolescence change?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Nora's final decision about her new, waterproof, roomy purse do for other women trying to make traditional purses work?

4. What does Nora claim affects people more than anything else?

5. Describe the second stage of parenting?

6. What is wrong with Nora Ephron's neck, besides age and what does she wish she would have enjoyed more?

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

8. What happens after Nora gets a divorce?

9. Describe how Nora views her apartment in the beginning?

10. What kind of a job is parenting?

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