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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Reta and Danielle different?
(a) Reta is a novelist; Danielle is a biographer.
(b) Reta is married with children; Danielle is single and childless.
(c) Reta is young and successful; Danielle is old and poor.
(d) Reta is Canadian; Danielle is American.

2. What present does Reta get for Norah's seventeenth birthday while on a book tour in D.C.?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A sweater.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A purse.

3. What prize did Reta's novel, "My Thyme is Up," win the previous year?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) The Man Booker Prize.
(c) The Pulitzer Prize.
(d) The Offenden Prize.

4. What two actual events do Reta's writer friends also discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?
(a) The self-immolation of a Muslim man in China; the poaching of ivory in North Africa.
(b) The woman in Mozambique who gave birth in a tree; the self-immolation of a Muslim woman in Nathan Philips Square.
(c) The recent Canadian election; the war in Afghanistan.
(d) The military coup in Mozambique; the cost of child care in Toronto.

5. Who does Reta go see after her encounter with Norah in early November?
(a) Mr. Scribano.
(b) Alexander Valkner.
(c) Emma Allen.
(d) Danielle Westerman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reta attend a series of interviews in September?

2. Why does Natalie thank Reta on Christine's birthday in October?

3. Why does Reta become angry at the male author being interviewed on the literary television show?

4. According to Reta, what are women still dismissed and excluded from?

5. What does Reta discuss with the person she visits after her encounter with Norah in early November?

(see the answer key)

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