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

2. What is a logical inference about who "Hopie" is?
(a) Alan's child.
(b) Alan's wife.
(c) Brenda's sister.
(d) Brenda's mother.

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

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

5. 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 huge dog."
(d) "A dropped stone."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Frank and Alan work on the Hardmann Roe case?

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

3. When Alan is talking about his divorce, what does Frank interrupt him to show him?

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

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

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