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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Reta and Danielle different?
(a) Reta is Canadian; Danielle is American.
(b) Reta is young and successful; Danielle is old and poor.
(c) Reta is married with children; Danielle is single and childless.
(d) Reta is a novelist; Danielle is a biographer.

2. What rationale does Reta offer about Norah's strange behavior in her letter to Valkner?
(a) It is Norah's attempt to be special and above everyone else.
(b) It is Norah's excuse not to finish school and get her degree.
(c) It is Norah's way of getting back at Reta for not being there for her.
(d) It is Norah's deliberate effort to extiguish herself and be a nothing.

3. In what month does Reta write her letter to Ford-Halpern?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) August.
(d) March.

4. Whose personality is Reta worried about developing in her novel?
(a) Norah's.
(b) Roman's.
(c) Danielle's.
(d) Alicia's.

5. What does Reta reveal about the first time she met Tom?
(a) They disliked each other the first time they met.
(b) She was seeing another man when they met.
(c) They were intimate the first time they met.
(d) He was seeing another woman when they met.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what point of view is Reta considering writing her novel?

2. According to Reta, what is NOT a romance with impossibly beautiful people?

3. Who does Reta meet for lunch after a radio interview in Baltimore?

4. What kind of woman does Reta realize she cannot create for a heroine in her novel?

5. In her letter to Ford-Halpern, how does Reta think other daughters can be protected from Norah's fate?

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