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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the book Reta picks up at Orangetown Library?
(a) The Forgiving Fall.
(b) The Goodness Gap.
(c) The Loss of Love.
(d) The Virtue of Victory.

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"?
(a) Because Reta feels as a woman she is shut out of the universe.
(b) Because Reta feels as a writer she needs to work away from people.
(c) Because Reta feels as a woman she should focus on her home.
(d) Because Reta feels as a mother she should tend to her family.

3. Why does Reta cry as she writes the check for the hostel each month?
(a) Reta cries out of heartfelt appreciation.
(b) Reta cries out of pity.
(c) Reta cries out of heartbreak.
(d) Reta cries out of grief.

4. What does Reta reveal about the first time she met Tom?
(a) They disliked each other the first time they met.
(b) She was seeing another man when they met.
(c) They were intimate the first time they met.
(d) He was seeing another woman when they met.

5. How are Reta and Danielle different?
(a) Reta is Canadian; Danielle is American.
(b) Reta is young and successful; Danielle is old and poor.
(c) Reta is married with children; Danielle is single and childless.
(d) Reta is a novelist; Danielle is a biographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What exercise does Reta find repellent?

2. What does Norah ask Reta about their family when she is nine years-old?

3. According to Reta, what is the most important aspect in her life?

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

5. Why does Reta also chide Valkner about his article "The History of Dictionaries"?

(see the answer key)

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