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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 41 - 86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bombeck claim to threaten her children with if they were to have company over while the parents were away?
(a) Taking away allowances.
(b) Forbidding them to get their driver's license.
(c) Increasing the household chores to fill their days.
(d) Grounding in their rooms through the teenage years.

2. When discussing when a child should call their parent with an emergency at work, what piece of furniture was taken into consideration?
(a) The dining room table.
(b) The sofa without Scotch Guard.
(c) The family rocking chair.
(d) The antique trunk.

3. According to Bombeck, after driving the mother crazy, what would happen to the father if a child were to meet them at the door after work?
(a) He would walk into the house and grab a beer before anything else.
(b) He would get in the car and go eat at a restaurant.
(c) He would go back to work.
(d) He would rupture a neck vein.

4. According to Bombeck's list of guidelines that determine whether a child should call their parent at work, the amount of what substance ought to be evaluated to constitute an emergency?
(a) Blood.
(b) Juice.
(c) Water.
(d) Ink.

5. What did most people tell Lorraine Suggs about her situation with her family?
(a) She was fortunate that her husband was always out-of-town.
(b) She had every right to try to divorce her husband for negligence.
(c) She complained too much about being busy.
(d) She was being taken advantage of by her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the best way to stall in tennis by Bombeck's standards?

2. What do Bombeck and her husband wish to do in "Why Can't We Have Our Own Apartment?"

3. When her family mourned Bombeck's imaginary death in "Is There Life After Mine?" what did they regret the most?

4. For what title would Bombeck like to have nominated Lorraine Suggs?

5. Where did some women store their second tennis ball?

(see the answer key)

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