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

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) The view from his balcony.
(c) An alumni magazine.
(d) His Biedermeier desk.

3. 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 upbringing.
(c) Staying in New York instead of returning to Nashville.
(d) Her lack of education.

4. On the summer night when Alan and Frank go to Brenda's apartment, why do they end up missing her party?
(a) They were not actually invited.
(b) They have been out drinking.
(c) They misunderstood when it was supposed to start.
(d) They have been working late.

5. In the sentence, "The blue car of the carabiniere lazed past," what does the word "carabiniere" mean (39)?
(a) Taxi driver.
(b) Police.
(c) Tour leader.
(d) Mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Alan's family from?

2. What is implied when Brenda meets "a handsome Dutchman who worked for a bank" (30)?

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

4. Why is Brenda heading to Rome?

5. What is the narrator implying about Brenda's discussion of her children with the comment "The first act was over.... Now came the plot" (37)?

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