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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 kind of car is Frank driving in the opening of the story's second part?
(a) Renault.
(b) Bentley.
(c) Rolls Royce.
(d) Cadillac.

2. What kind of company is Hardmann Roe?
(a) A large manufacturer.
(b) A law firm.
(c) A drug company.
(d) A lobbying group.

3. What technique is used in the sentence, "On the curtained upper floors the legs of countesses uncoiled, slithering on the sheets like a serpent" (38)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Personification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are Frank, Alan, and Brenda at the beginning of Part 2?

3. Which word is twice used to describe the way Eda looks?

4. What is playing on the car radio when Frank and Alan first give Eda a ride?

5. As Alan rides through the countryside outside Venice and as he walks around Padua, what seems to impress him most about Italy?

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