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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Norah ask Reta about their family when she is nine years-old?
(a) Norah asks Reta whether or not she is adopted.
(b) Norah asks Reta whether or not her parents are Catholic.
(c) Norah asks Reta whether or not her parents are married.
(d) Norah asks Reta whether or not they are from Canada.

2. 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 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 attempt to be special and above everyone else.

3. What is undrinkable according to Colin?
(a) Reta's coffee.
(b) Tom's lemonade.
(c) Red wine.
(d) Green tea.

4. Why does Reta include "The Hermitage" in her signature at the end of her letter of complaint about "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual World"?
(a) Because Reta feels as a woman she should focus on her home.
(b) Because Reta feels as a mother she should tend to her family.
(c) Because Reta feels as a writer she needs to work away from people.
(d) Because Reta feels as a woman she is shut out of the universe.

5. What two languages are spoken during Reta's childhood?
(a) English and German.
(b) English and French.
(c) English and Spanish.
(d) French and Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What troubles Norah when she comes home one weekend her second year at university?

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

4. Why does Reta write a letter of complaint to an editor of a literary magazine about a series of books called "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual World"?

5. According to Reta's writer friends at the Orange Blossom Room, why are women excluded from real life?

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