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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "American Express" pages 35-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brenda seem to feel about Frank and Alan missing her party?
(a) Pleased.
(b) Confused.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Irritated.

2. When Alan is talking about his divorce, what does Frank interrupt him to show him?
(a) A legal passage dealing with spousal support.
(b) An alumni magazine.
(c) His Biedermeier desk.
(d) The view from his balcony.

3. Which detail conveys Frank's continued attractiveness to women despite his age?
(a) The behavior of the German hotel manager's girlfriend.
(b) The comments of the employees at the coffee place in Como.
(c) The behavior of the Italian countesses in Venice.
(d) The comments of the border guards as they cross into Como.

4. What technique is used in the sentence, "Which was what made them inseparable, the hours of work, the lyric, the dreams" (26)?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Litotes.

5. What is the English translation of the word "Basta" (41)?
(a) Please.
(b) Later.
(c) More.
(d) Enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Frank, Alan, and Brenda at the beginning of Part 2?

2. After they drop Eda off, what does Alan say to Frank about the encounter?

3. With whom does Brenda go on a trip to Hawaii?

4. What has Frank been shopping for while in Italy?

5. What is Frank referring to when he asks Brenda what she is going to do with "that beautiful struma" (27)?

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