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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 reason does Bruno Navasky give for waiting so long reply to Alice's letter?
(a) Bruno is gathering research to support the funding project.
(b) He is angry at Alice.
(c) He is busy.
(d) Alice's first letter gets lost in the mail.

2. Calvin claims that the first time he sees Alice, he detects what quality about her heritage?
(a) Alice is European.
(b) Alice is Irish.
(c) Alice is Jewish.
(d) Alice is Swedish.

3. Where does Alice once work?
(a) Random House.
(b) Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital
(c) Ford Modeling Agency.
(d) Scholastic.

4. What is the prognosis that Alice's doctor gives, following her surgery in 1976?
(a) A five percent chance of survival.
(b) A twenty-five percent chance of survival.
(c) A ten percent chance of survival.
(d) A seventy-five percent chance of survival.

5. Alice tells her husband that he peaks in which year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Alice's letter to Bruno Navasky, she states:

2. According to Calvin, Alice has especially strong views about which of the following subjects?

3. Of the following, which one best describes Calvin and Alice's first home?

4. In chapter six, what does a carpenter named Frank tell Alice during her home renovation project?

5. What does Calvin believe Alice says about living twenty-five years after her cancer diagnosis?

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