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

2. What magazine article does Nora write when she realizes her life has changed and she is now a writer?
(a) A magazine article about living in Los Angeles.
(b) A magazine article about weight issues.
(c) A magazine article about having small breasts.
(d) A magazine article about being a New Yorker.

3. What did Nora never have while she was at the White House?
(a) A chance to meet Jackie Kennedy.
(b) A desk or typewriter.
(c) A decent cup of coffee.
(d) An office of her own.

4. What does Nora question in regarding to her time with Bill?
(a) Her value to Bill.
(b) Her self-worth.
(c) What love even is.
(d) What friendship is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Nora's favorite foods?

2. What leads to Nora's personal story of being an intern at the White House while JFK was President?

3. What does Nora savor after she has found the strudel?

4. Who does Nora equate her computer addiction to?

5. What kind of approach does Nora take when giving advice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the success that happens on Nora's quest for the cabbage strudel.

2. What is the relationship that Nora draws between the reader and a diver?

3. What is the point of discussing a lost food?

4. Why does Nora believe she was never propositioned by JFK?

5. What kind of relationship does Nora have with the characters she reads about in books?

6. Describe Nora's desk environment.

7. What does Nora begin talking about when describing her life in New York?

8. What happens to Nora when she is seven months pregnant that changes the course of her life entirely?

9. What political issue makes Nora unwilling to support Bill?

10. Describe Nora and Bill's relationship in the beginning?

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