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

2. To what is Brenda compared when she leaps from Frank's arms on page 27?
(a) "A thirteen-year-old."
(b) "A rocket to the moon."
(c) "A dropped stone."
(d) "A huge dog."

3. Where did Frank take Alan and Brenda in Paris?
(a) The opera.
(b) A cabaret.
(c) The ballet.
(d) A museum.

4. With whom does Brenda go on a trip to Hawaii?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Frank.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. On page 35, when Alan tells Frank that the women he likes are all looking for someone like Frank, what does Frank reply?
(a) "Alan, we're the same, you and me."
(b) "Let them find me, then."
(c) "They don't know what's good for them."
(d) "They think they are."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank say New York is divided into?

2. From context, which is a reasonable interpretation of the simile "They had separate rooms, like staterooms, like passengers on a fading boat" (36)?

3. What does Eda's father do for a living?

4. Which character is identified as being in an "intermediate state though looking assured" (31)?

5. When Alan wonders, "Giotto--what would that mean to her?" what does "Giotto" refer to (39)?

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