A Quiz About "Beaches"--The Novel

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1. When C.C. and Bertie first met, C.C. was 10 years old. How old was Bertie?

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.

2. Who ran the summer stock theater in Beach Haven, New Jersey, where C.C. performed?

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.

3. Who did Bertie marry?

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'.

4. What did Bertie name her daughter?

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.

5. What kind of cancer did Bertie have?

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.

6. What was the name of Bertie's gynecologist?

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.

7. What was the name of the younger man Bertie was going to spend the weekend with in California?

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.

8. While in Hawaii, C.C. sleeps with Bertie's husband.

Answer: False

Michael Barron made a pass at C.C., but she refused and told him he was disgusting. Bertie thought they had slept together though, and she refused to write to or speak with C.C. for a long time after that.

9. What did C.C. buy to surprise Bertie when she was taking care of her in Carmel?

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.

10. At the end of the book, Bertie decides she wants her daughter to live with C.C.

Answer: True

Bertie was going to have Nina live with her Aunt Anita and Uncle Herbie. C.C. told Bertie that she thought Nina would be better off with her, and in the end Bertie agreed. Thanks for taking this quiz.

Source: Author miss_chris

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This quiz is about the novel "Beaches" by Iris Rainer Dart.

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