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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two actual events do Reta's writer friends also discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?
(a) The recent Canadian election; the war in Afghanistan.
(b) The military coup in Mozambique; the cost of child care in Toronto.
(c) The woman in Mozambique who gave birth in a tree; the self-immolation of a Muslim woman in Nathan Philips Square.
(d) The self-immolation of a Muslim man in China; the poaching of ivory in North Africa.

2. What praise does Reta give Alexander Valkner about his article "The History of Dictionaries"?
(a) Reta praises his intellectual rigor.
(b) Reta praises his research method.
(c) Reta praises his personal narrative style.
(d) Reta praises his broad approach.

3. How are Reta and Danielle different?
(a) Reta is a novelist; Danielle is a biographer.
(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 Canadian; Danielle is American.

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

5. According to Reta, what does she find "monstrous" in the face of Norah's absence?
(a) Idiosyncrasies.
(b) Abnormalities.
(c) Oddities.
(d) Normalcy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Colin's marriage to Marietta troubled?

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

3. How old does Christine, Reta's daughter, turn in October?

4. How does Reta approach Norah when she visits her in early November?

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"?

(see the answer key)

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