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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the place Reta meets her friends on Tuesdays?
(a) Red Blossom Room.
(b) Orange Blossom Room.
(c) Yellow Blossom Room.
(d) Green Blossom Room.

2. What is the name of Reta's new novel?
(a) Thyme in Bloom.
(b) Thyme is Timeless.
(c) Thyme in Mind.
(d) Thyme to Forgive.

3. In Reta's letter to Ford-Halpern, what is "an endless series of obstacles, an alignment of locked doors"?
(a) Reta's mind.
(b) Danielle's obstacles.
(c) Norah's world.
(d) Emma's loss.

4. What two actual events do Reta's writer friends also discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?
(a) The self-immolation of a Muslim man in China; the poaching of ivory in North Africa.
(b) The recent Canadian election; the war in Afghanistan.
(c) The woman in Mozambique who gave birth in a tree; the self-immolation of a Muslim woman in Nathan Philips Square.
(d) The military coup in Mozambique; the cost of child care in Toronto.

5. According to Reta's writer friends at the Orange Blossom Room, why are women excluded from real life?
(a) Because men view women as incapable of rational thought.
(b) Because men view women as lacking moral authority and capability.
(c) Because men view women as superior to everyday concerns.
(d) Because men view women as more capable and superior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been able to distract Reta from grieving for Norah?

2. What constant preoccupation does Reta think is not a normal activity for anyone BUT writers?

3. How are Reta and Danielle different?

4. Whose personality is Reta worried about developing in her novel?

5. Who works as a trombonist?

(see the answer key)

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