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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. From context, what is the best interpretation of the word "funny" in "In those days they were living in apartments with funny furniture" (25)?
(a) The furniture gives people a strange feeling.
(b) The furniture is amusing.
(c) The furniture is likely stolen.
(d) The furniture is of poor quality.

2. What does Eda's father do for a living?
(a) Raise chickens.
(b) Restore furniture.
(c) Masonry.
(d) Sell cars.

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

4. Which is the best description of the husband and wife conversation that Frank mimics?
(a) Banal.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Playful.
(d) Earnest.

5. What is ironic about the setting around Frank when he calls Eda about going to Florence?
(a) He is still at the same hotel where he had her in his room just the night before.
(b) Alan is nearby but has no idea that Frank plans to invite Eda along with them to Florence.
(c) The same porter that he had to bribe the night before is the one who placed the call.
(d) He is sitting in a room with other children innocently playing cards while their mothers talk nearby.

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. What does Frank offer Eda while they are in the car riding around Arezzo?

4. What is implied by the detail of the woman "dressed for dinner" getting out of a taxi in the morning outside Alan and Frank's hotel (39)?

5. What does Nan say is the cause of her life "made up of disappointments" (32)?

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