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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 129 - 166.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bombeck claim is the purpose of "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?"
(a) Living the better life.
(b) Survival.
(c) Escaping reality.
(d) Exercising the mind.

2. What did Bombeck's butcher continually refuse to do?
(a) Give her lessons in properly preparing chicken for pasta.
(b) Offer her lower prices on meat.
(c) Allow her to write a column about his customers.
(d) Visit her house to evaluate what she did wrong in cooking a roast.

3. What Washington bureaucrat did Bombeck decide she wanted to meeting in "Constitutionality of Drive-in Windows?"
(a) The designer of the stamps.
(b) The one who decided post offices should always be located far away from populated areas.
(c) The one who decides the cost of shipping parcels.
(d) The designer of the drive-up mailboxes.

4. What did Bombeck predict as being the future of game show contestants?
(a) They would need to undergo training.
(b) They would be used to train CIA agents.
(c) They would have to sign a waiver.
(d) They would be forced to sign over their houses?

5. What joke did Bombeck's husband once play on her in "Register Camera Nuts?"
(a) He pretended all of their vacation photos were ruined.
(b) He pretended to take a picture of her hips.
(c) He pretended to lose their film.
(d) He pretended to take a picture of her first thing in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Who Killed Apple Pie?," what does Bombeck discuss as being no longer fulfilling for women?

3. What was Bombeck worried that scientists would discover?

4. What space flight did Bombeck mention in "Gametime?"

5. Where did Bombeck find the pencil nub?

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