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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Reta, what are women still dismissed and excluded from?
(a) Economic advancement.
(b) Accolades and compensation.
(c) Freedom of expression.
(d) Primary entitlements.

2. What does Reta discuss with the person she visits after her encounter with Norah in early November?
(a) Marriage and divorce.
(b) Feminist intellectuals.
(c) Children of war.
(d) Literary matters.

3. What is the first subject Reta and her writer friends discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?
(a) The nature of goodness.
(b) The way to forgiveness.
(c) The loss of truth.
(d) The path to enlightenment.

4. How does Reta approach Norah when she visits her in early November?
(a) Carefully, as Reta does not want to appear threatening.
(b) Indifferently, as Reta no longer cares about Norah's panhandling.
(c) Joyfully, as Reta is so happy to see Norah.
(d) Angrily, as Reta is upset by Norah's behavior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the university Norah is accepted to in 1998?

2. What does Reta bring Norah on the way to her appointment to have her eyebrows tinted?

3. What present does Reta get for Norah's seventeenth birthday while on a book tour in D.C.?

4. Who does Reta go see after her encounter with Norah in early November?

5. How does Reta explain Norah's strange behavior to Christine and Natalie?

(see the answer key)

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