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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is not easy to do as one ages?
(a) Hear.
(b) Read.
(c) Write.
(d) Laugh.
2. Who inspires Nora Ephron to change her life by helping her find her true personal style in cooking and in home decor?
(a) Craig Claiborne.
(b) Michael Fields.
(c) Julia Child.
(d) Lee Bailey.
3. When Nora Ephron must work outside the home, what kind of purse does she end up getting?
(a) A large plastic shopping bag.
(b) A clutch.
(c) A hobo bag.
(d) A Hermes bag.
4. What changes in Nora's life as her cooking style changes?
(a) Nora's clothing style.
(b) Nora's philosophy on life.
(c) Nora's taste in home decor.
(d) Nora's attitude towards friends.
5. What subject does Nora Ephron provide humorous insight into?
(a) Being an aging woman.
(b) Being a woman about to marry.
(c) Being a woman in love.
(d) Being a woman expecting a child.
6. Why does Nora not need a purse for a time?
(a) She carries very little around with her.
(b) She rebels.
(c) She uses a backpack instead.
(d) She works from home.
7. Where does Nora find herself at the time she moves?
(a) Happily excited over a new job.
(b) Happily in love with a new lover.
(c) Happily with child.
(d) Happily remarried.
8. When did Nora Ephron enjoy reading telephone books?
(a) In the evenings after work.
(b) When she was a young reporter.
(c) When she worked on scripts.
(d) On break between novels.
9. What is happening to Nora's vision?
(a) It is changing.
(b) She is developing cataracts.
(c) It is blurring.
(d) She is experiencing double vision.
10. What does Nora Ephron say she wishes she would have enjoyed and appreciated in her life?
(a) Her younger and more attractive decolletage.
(b) Her younger and more attractive derriere.
(c) Her younger and more attractive neck.
(d) Her younger and more attractive hands.
11. What does Nora miss being able to read?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The telephone book.
(c) Novels.
(d) Magazine articles.
12. What does Nora want to happen even though she does not like to exercise?
(a) Improve her strength.
(b) Get into shape.
(c) Get flexible.
(d) Improve her stamina.
13. What happens in Nora Ephron's marriage as she is experimenting in the culinary world?
(a) She has another child.
(b) She cheats on her husband.
(c) She is left for another woman.
(d) She gets a divorce.
14. What does Nora now have on her face because of menopause?
(a) Deep wrinkles.
(b) Rosacea.
(c) A mustache.
(d) Moles.
15. What does the effects of eyesight going bad affect?
(a) Reading books.
(b) Being able to read telephone books, menus, and pill bottles.
(c) Almost everything a person does.
(d) Writing novels.
Short Answer Questions
1. What item does Nora often lose?
2. What has nothing to do with age?
3. What is the story of Nora's apartment essentially a story about?
4. What is the chapter "Blind as a Bat" and ode to?
5. Who does adolescence change?
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