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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Arthur ask Reta to send him a draft?
(a) So that he can make sure she is doing a good job.
(b) So that he can help her in the writing of it.
(c) So that he can correct her grammar.
(d) So that he can share it with his colleagues.

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

3. According to Reta, what can "help us turn down the volume of our own interior discourse"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Novels.
(c) Family.
(d) Work.

4. Why does Reta protest sending Arthur a draft?
(a) Because it is only in her mind.
(b) Because she wants to work with another editor.
(c) Because she lost it on the computer.
(d) Because she thinks it is terrible.

5. What rationale does Reta offer about Norah's strange behavior in her letter to Valkner?
(a) It is Norah's deliberate effort to extiguish herself and be a nothing.
(b) It is Norah's attempt to be special and above everyone else.
(c) It is Norah's excuse not to finish school and get her degree.
(d) It is Norah's way of getting back at Reta for not being there for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Reta's letter to Ford-Halpern, what is "an endless series of obstacles, an alignment of locked doors"?

2. What constant preoccupation does Reta think is not a normal activity for anyone BUT writers?

3. What do Tom and the girls see as a contradiction about the American event they are fixated on?

4. What is the name of Reta's new novel?

5. According to Reta's writer friends at the Orange Blossom Room, why are women excluded from real life?

(see the answer key)

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