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1. Where does Nina end up going to school?

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: public school

At the beginning of the book, C.C. is going to send Nina to boarding school because of the lawyer's recommendation. Once she drops her off though, she has second thoughts and goes back to get her. C.C. looks around at a lot of private schools, but feels none of them are right. She ends up sending Nina to the public school in their neighborhood, where Nina wanted to go all along.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: 7

Cecilia (C.C.) Bloom and Roberta (Bertie) White met on the beach in Atlantic City. Bertie had been at the beach with her mother and Aunt Neet when she got lost. They became friends and would start to write letters to each through the years.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: 1983

Dart later wrote the book "I'll be There", which is a follow-up to "Beaches".

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: Kevin

Kevin is a boy who lives in their neighborhood. He has cerebral palsy.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: John Perry

C.C. went to Beach Haven when she was 19 years old to perform for the summer. She developed a crush on John Perry. Bertie came to visit and this was the first time they had seen each other since they met, nine years earlier. Bertie lost her virginity to John Perry and after she left Beach Haven, C.C. and John got married.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Roberta Barron

Roberta's character was named Hillary Whitney in the movie.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: Michael Barron

Bertie wrote to C.C. that she wasn't sure she really wanted to marry Michael, but she did anyway. She described him as a 'cold fish'.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Pittsburgh, PA

In the movie, though, the character grew up and lived in San Francisco.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: Michael

C.C. spots Michael Barron on the beach. She is surprised to see that he is remarried and has two children. When she talks to him, she asks that he finally meet Nina and he agrees. But the next morning when Nina goes to meet him, he does not show up.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: Nina

Bertie and Michael had tried throughout their marriage to have a baby. She didn't find out she was pregnant until after they had already separated. When Bertie told Michael, he said he would pay support, but he did not want to have anything to do with the baby. Bertie named the baby Nina Rose Barron.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: He died in a plane crash

This man was Roberta's last chance to finally find her right man, but he was killed in a plane crash flying from Chicago to L.A.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: She gives it to Aunt Anita

Aunt Anita is complaining that her sister Rosie, Nina's grandmother, didn't leave her anything when she passed away. Nina shows her the ring that her mother left to her, and when Aunt Anita asks to try it on, she likes it so much, Nina hates to ask for it back. But when C.C. gets there and sees the ring on Anita's finger she demands that she give it back to Nina.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: ovarian

Bertie only had a couple months left to live when C.C. came to stay with her. Bertie had decided to leave Florida and go to Carmel, California to die away from her friends and family. After C.C. was there for a while, she sent for Nina to come be with her mother.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Nina Barron

Nina followed in the footsteps of CC and started a career as a child actress.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: Disneyland

C.C's father was near death when she talked him into going to the hospital to have heart surgery. He and C.C. become close for the first time since she was a little girl. She loves finding out that he can sing and that she must have got some of her talent from him. C.C.'s father also enjoys doing things with Nina.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: Dr. Wechsler

While visiting a pregnant Bertie, C.C. met Dr. Wechsler and started to go out with him. She confided to Bertie that she thought maybe she was in love and could settle down and live the straight life with him. But when C.C. got a call from Allan Jackson, her former lover, she decided to go back to Hollywood and be with him.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Hawaii

It was during this trip that the two women's strong friendship almost ended; Roberta overheard a phone conversation and assumed that CC and her husband had made love to each other when, in fact, that never happened.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: Nina's drug use

C.C. finds out that Nina has been using drugs and after they go to counseling, Nina runs away. After a couple of days, she calls C.C. because she has had a bad reaction to some drugs that she took. Nina has to go into detox and rehabilitation.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: David Malcolm

Bertie met David Malcolm at her tennis club. She was 35 and he was 27. They talked a lot on the phone and he invited her to visit him in California. Shortly after Bertie got to California, she found out that David had been killed in a plane crash on his way home from Chicago.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Cancer

In the movie, though, the character died of viral cardiomyopathy.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: emerald ring

Nina sells the emerald ring her mother left her to a girl at school to get money to buy drugs.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: She fired Roberta's own nurse after learning the basic knowledge of nursing from her

Roberta didn't like the idea at first, as she had seen Cee Cee faint in hospital environments.

From Quiz A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

Answer: christmas tree

Bertie told C.C. that she was sad that she would not be alive at Christmas time. C.C. went out and bought a Christmas tree, even though it was only July.

From Quiz "Beaches"- Questions about the Book

Answer: Cee Cee

Here's a notable difference between book and movie: in the 1989 film, Hillary wrote in her will that Cee Cee was to be the caretaker of her daughter, while in the book, Roberta first became very upset about the thought that Nina should live with Cee Cee but later changed her mind.

From Quiz "I'll Be There" Quiz (Sequel to "Beaches")

Answer: C.C.

C.C. finally adopts Nina. She had always wanted to, but was afraid that Nina would not want her to. When she finds out that Nina has always hoped to be adopted by C.C., they go to court to make it legal. Thanks for taking this quiz.

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