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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nora Ephron get frustrated carrying her purse around?

2. What is it like living in Nora's apartment in the beginning?

3. What is the name of Nora's new man in her life?

4. What does Nora Ephron enjoy about reading?

5. What does each stage of parenting bring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is wrong with Nora Ephron's neck, besides age and what does she wish she would have enjoyed more?

2. Who is Nora Ephron?

3. What does Nora's final decision about her new, waterproof, roomy purse do for other women trying to make traditional purses work?

4. What does Nora do while she tries out recipes from her favorite cookbooks?

5. What is the premise of Nora Ephron's book "I Feel Bad About My Neck?"

6. What kind of a job is parenting?

7. Describe how Nora views her apartment in the beginning?

8. What happens when Nora finally gets reading glasses?

9. What is significant about Lee Bailey?

10. Why does Nora travel to Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nora Ephron discusses "The Parenting Movement", which began just before Nora had kids. Write an essay on the past 50 years of the social interpretation of child rearing. If possible, outline the theories that have been offered over time and if they have served parents or not. . Include 3 major researchers and their findings (doctors, psychologists, etc). FInally, end your essay with your own social commentary of parenting What is it that you believe is good advice to follow when raising a child?

Essay Topic 2

Nora says that most people would agree that wisdom comes with age. What do you believe? Write an essay on the definition of wisdom, according to the Greeks, and how it is now perceived in Western Culture. Does the West respect the wisdom that comes with age? Do they respect age? Is there any exception to the old adage that wisdom comes from age? Could wisdom come from truthful perception? Write this as an opinion piece and base it on personal experience.

Essay Topic 3

Nora talks about advice and how many things a person figures out only after they have already made a mistake. Think of one mistake you have made so far in your life that you have now figured out. How would you have responded differently had you known? Replay the scenario. Take a different side and create an essay in which you learned from your mistake.

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