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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "American Express" pages 25-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the details of the thick towels, Biedermeier desk, and private school meant to convey?
(a) Frank's insecurity.
(b) Frank's good taste.
(c) Frank's success.
(d) Frank's snobbery.

2. What is implied when Brenda meets "a handsome Dutchman who worked for a bank" (30)?
(a) Frank is more focused on the case than on Brenda, so she finds a different boyfriend.
(b) Brenda has always been more interested in finding a rich man than finding true love.
(c) Brenda is cheating on Frank, but he not invested in their relationship enough to notice.
(d) Brenda is looking for a house for her and Frank to live in outside the city.

3. What is Alan's family's religious background?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Catholic.

4. What technique is used in the sentence "In the morning in stale darkness the subways shrieked" (26)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Personification.

5. From context, what is the best interpretation of the word "hot" in Alan's comment about the new receptionist: "She's hot" (26)?
(a) She is sexually available.
(b) She is physically attractive.
(c) She is angry about something.
(d) She is uncomfortably warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the allusion to Frik and Frak imply about how the higher-ups at their firm see Alan and Frank?

2. What technique is used in the sentence, "Which was what made them inseparable, the hours of work, the lyric, the dreams" (26)?

3. On the night of Brenda's party, how long has Alan been in New York?

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

5. What does working on the Hardmann Roe case remind Frank and Alan of?

(see the answer key)

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