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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. 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 it is part of her research.
(d) Reta attends them because she enjoys being interviewed.

2. What exercise does Reta find repellent?
(a) Counting her blessings.
(b) Vacuuming her house.
(c) Writing her book.
(d) Researching her novel.

3. Who does Reta mention by name in her letter of complaint about "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual World"?
(a) Natalie.
(b) Christine.
(c) Norah.
(d) Tom.

4. What is the name of Reta's friend, a medical journalist who lives in Newfoundland?
(a) Edith Ackman.
(b) Emily Alister.
(c) Esther Alford.
(d) Emma Allen.

5. What prize did Reta's novel, "My Thyme is Up," win the previous year?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) The Offenden Prize.
(c) The Pulitzer Prize.
(d) The Man Booker Prize.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Reta's mentor?

3. What is the first subject Reta and her writer friends discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?

4. What two languages are spoken during Reta's childhood?

5. 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"?

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