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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Calvin's youngest daughter?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Isabelle Alice.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Abigail.
2. What is the headline in the magazine article in which Alice is featured as a model at the age of thirty-five?
(a) The beauty and the brain.
(b) The picture of health.
(c) About Alice.
(d) College instructor, mother and wife.
3. What is the name of the magazine that hosts the party where Calvin first meets Alice?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Monocle.
(c) Times Magazine.
(d) Life.
4. At the end of chapter three, Calvin tells a story about Alice in which she makes an annual trip to which of the following locations?
(a) A plant nursery in New Jersey.
(b) A summer home in Nova Scotia.
(c) A brownstone in Greenwich Village.
(d) Her best friend's grave.
5. In chapter three, who writes the article that accompanies the fashion spread in which Alice is featured?
(a) Mina Shaughnessy.
(b) Nora Ephron.
(c) Alice Trillin.
(d) Calvin.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Calvin's second poem in chapter three, he likens Alice to which of the following?
2. Where does Calvin keep one of the photos of Alice from the article in chapter three?
3. According to Calvin, why does he show Alice everything he writes in rough draft?
4. According to Calvin, what does Alice exclaim when encountering a deer in a forest?
5. Where does Alice's father first meet Alice's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Calvin Trillin's father-in-law.
2. When Calvin Trillin describes the first time he sees Alice in chapter two, what does he say is the first thing that strikes him about her? Is it simply her attractiveness, or something else?
3. What event causes Alice to feel as though she loses her looks?
4. In chapter one, Trillin reveals that although his readers become familiar with Alice as a sensible, somewhat serious character in his books and articles, they never really know her. Why?
5. In chapter one, Calvin Trillin states that the stories he writes about his family can be compared what kinds of television shows?
6. In what ways are Alice's looks, coupled with the superficial facts about her background, misleading?
7. In chapter three, Calvin Trillin explains that Alice's role as caretaker to her parents has a positive impact on her life. How?
8. In chapter two, Calvin Trillin draws a parallel in the relationship between the novelist Dick Francis and his late wife Mary and Trillin's own marriage to Alice. Explain.
9. In chapter three, why does Alice accept the request to be photographed in a fashion issue of a magazine?
10. In what ways is Alice's beauty a hardship?
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