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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 Tom's friend, Colin Glass, try to explain to Norah when he comes over for dinner?
(a) Curie's Theory of Radioactivity.
(b) Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
(c) Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
(d) Newton's Laws of Motion.

2. What is Reta's struggle about what a writer of fiction should give the reader?
(a) How much background information should be given.
(b) How many points of view should be given.
(c) How many metaphors and similes should be used.
(d) How much her characters should be like her readers.

3. What troubles Norah when she comes home one weekend her second year at university?
(a) Norah is upset that she cannot spend more time with her sisters.
(b) Norah is anxious about her decision to live with her boyfriend.
(c) Norah is disturbed by the sense that she cannot love anyone enough.
(d) Norah is afraid that she will disappoint her parents by failing school.

4. What word does Norah have written on the cardboard sign on her chest?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Peace.

5. Who does Reta meet for lunch after a radio interview in Baltimore?
(a) Her mentor, Danielle.
(b) Her old friend, Gwen.
(c) Her editor, Arthur.
(d) Her daughter, Christine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. According to Reta, what is "full of rough corners that seem to me just about to come into their full beauty"?

4. Who is Reta's mentor?

5. What does Reta discover behind the furnace that belonged to the previous owners?

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