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

2. Why does Reta attend a series of interviews in September?
(a) Reta attends them in order to get a raise at work.
(b) Reta attends them on behalf of her mentor.
(c) Reta attends them because she enjoys being interviewed.
(d) Reta attends them because it is part of her research.

3. What is the name of the university Norah is accepted to in 1998?
(a) University of Victoria.
(b) St. Mary's University.
(c) McGill University.
(d) King's College.

4. What does Reta discover behind the furnace that belonged to the previous owners?
(a) An invitation to a baby shower.
(b) A confession of infidelity.
(c) A child's report card.
(d) A love letter.

5. Why does Norah enroll at the University of Toronto?
(a) To get away from her boyfriend.
(b) To get away from her family.
(c) To live with her boyfriend.
(d) To be closer to her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Reta, what are women still dismissed and excluded from?

2. What is the name of Reta's friend, a medical journalist who lives in Newfoundland?

3. What is the name of the previous owners of Reta and Tom's Ontario farmhouse?

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. What two actual events do Reta's writer friends also discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?

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