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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the magazine that hosts the party where Calvin first meets Alice?
(a) Life.
(b) Monocle.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Times Magazine.

2. What does Calvin believe Alice says about living twenty-five years after her cancer diagnosis?
(a) "I wish that I had been a better mother!"
(b) "I know that doctor is wrong!"
(c) "I'm so lucky!"
(d) "I should have said more prayers."

3. What is written on the envelope in which Alice keeps special items?
(a) Important Stuff.
(b) Memories.
(c) Treasures.
(d) Trillin Family Mementos.

4. At the end of chapter two, Calvin states that he is reviewing the galleys of a book. What is the book's subject?
(a) Riding a bus in New York.
(b) Parking in New York.
(c) Bicycling in New York.
(d) Eating in New York restaurants.

5. In chapter three, Calvin includes a quote from a friend of Alice who speaks at her memorial service. Who is this person?
(a) Nora Ephron.
(b) Alice's father.
(c) Mina Shaughnessy.
(d) Mary Francis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a neighbor say to Calvin a few weeks after Alice's surgery in 1976?

2. What does Calvin's father do for a living?

3. In Calvin's second poem in chapter three, he likens Alice to which of the following?

4. What is the Alice Tax?

5. What is a Trillin family motto?

(see the answer key)

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