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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 167 - 213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would Bombeck have felt self-conscious during "Constitutionality of Drive-in Windows?"
(a) She could not figure out how to work the ATM.
(b) Her children were acting up.
(c) Her muffler was really loud.
(d) She knew she was being filmed in the drive-through lane.

2. In Bombeck's example of growing older with children in "When Did I Become the Mother and the Mother Become the Child?", what did the daughter do?
(a) Asked her mother to move in with her.
(b) Put her arm between her mother and the windshield.
(c) Cooked dinner for her mother.
(d) Took her mother to the doctor.

3. What was less expensive than traveling in the traditional manner?
(a) Traveling in a group.
(b) Using a travel agent.
(c) Tour packages.
(d) Going to Europe by boat.

4. How many people did Bombeck cite as being necessary for driving a shopping cart?
(a) One.
(b) Zero.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. When Bombeck received a tardy letter from her sister in "The Unmailed Letter," with what word had the sister replaced word "war?"
(a) Vacation.
(b) Easter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Bombeck not claim to do as a reaction to the "Great Caffeine Drought of 1942?"

2. What did Bombeck note about sportscasters' language in "No One Wins"?

3. What reason did Bombeck cite as the reason she and her husband decided to go to Europe?

4. Ultimately, why would Bombeck's winner in her game show scenario have been disqualified?

5. What accounted for Bombeck's mother's shrunken finger in "Beauty?"

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