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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 167 - 213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about several of the essays following "The Trick is Knowing When to Laugh?"
(a) Bombeck has begun to question her career as a writer.
(b) Bombeck promised to use any of them in a later book if someone thought they were really funny.
(c) Bombeck decided to write them from different points-of-view.
(d) Bombeck started to talk about her upcoming retirement.

2. What did Bombeck attempt to recite in "Why Can't Our Average Little Family Get Their Own TV series?" that ended up not being funny?
(a) Limericks.
(b) One-liners.
(c) Oscar Wilde monologues.
(d) Children's jokes.

3. Which of the following did Bombeck not claim to do as a reaction to the "Great Caffeine Drought of 1942?"
(a) Bleached her black clothing.
(b) Buttered her hand.
(c) Noticed the drafts caused by her eyelashes.
(d) Shaved her tongue.

4. In Bombeck's son's example of his mother's lessons in logic, what would prevent a child from not being allowed to go to the store?
(a) Wearing dirty clothes from the day before.
(b) Hurting themselves if they fall off their bikes.
(c) Getting a detention from the principal.
(d) Getting anything lower than a B on their report cards.

5. For what offense would Bombeck not be convicted, according to "Register Camera Nuts?"
(a) Running a red light.
(b) Punishing her husband for pushing her too far after his camera prank.
(c) Destroying her husband's camera.
(d) Refusing mugshots.

Short Answer Questions

1. After her son moves out, into what does Bombeck transform his bedroom?

2. What was Bombeck's reaction to her daughter's announcement about the bill in Congress during "Have a Good Day"?

3. According to "When Did I Become the Mother and the Mother Become the Child?", what transfers between a mother and her child as the years go on?

4. In "Beauty," what did Bombeck appreciate about her mother's physicality?

5. How many versions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" did Bombeck decide should exist?

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