View a FREE sample

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

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

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

4. What does Nan say is the cause of her life "made up of disappointments" (32)?
(a) Falling in love with the wrong people.
(b) Her lack of education.
(c) Staying in New York instead of returning to Nashville.
(d) Her upbringing.

5. Why does Brenda not want to take the promotion she has been offered?
(a) She does not want to move to the Washington, D.C. office.
(b) She does not think it would be a good idea to be working so closely with Frank.
(c) She does not think she would be able to do the job.
(d) She does not think much of the man she would be working for.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the summer night when Alan and Frank go to Brenda's apartment, why do they end up missing her party?

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

3. When Alan and Frank miss Brenda's party, what is Alan disappointed about?

4. What technique is used in the sentence "In the morning in stale darkness the subways shrieked" (26)?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 345 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample