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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. Where did Frank take Alan and Brenda in Paris?
(a) The opera.
(b) The ballet.
(c) A cabaret.
(d) A museum.

2. What does Frank offer Eda while they are in the car riding around Arezzo?
(a) A fancy watch.
(b) Money.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) Alcohol.

3. 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) Epistrophe.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Asyndeton.

4. What is playing on the car radio when Frank and Alan first give Eda a ride?
(a) A story about the murder of a priest.
(b) A story about the Korean War.
(c) American big band music.
(d) An Italian opera.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank feel when he smells leaf smoke on the way to Florence?

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

3. Where is Alan's family from?

4. On page 35, when Alan tells Frank that the women he likes are all looking for someone like Frank, what does Frank reply?

5. What are the details of the thick towels, Biedermeier desk, and private school meant to convey?

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