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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Alan's family from?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Hartford.
(d) Cleveland.

2. At the end of the story's first section, what is Alan trying to decide about Frank?
(a) Whether Frank knows how to make himself happy.
(b) Whether there is something missing inside Frank.
(c) Whether Frank is secretly insecure.
(d) Whether Frank is really his friend.

3. 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 is likely stolen.
(b) The furniture is of poor quality.
(c) The furniture gives people a strange feeling.
(d) The furniture is amusing.

4. Who is Camille?
(a) Alan's mother.
(b) Alan's sister.
(c) Alan's wife.
(d) Alan's child.

5. Why does Brenda not want to take the promotion she has been offered?
(a) She does not think she would be able to do the job.
(b) She does not think much of the man she would be working for.
(c) She does not want to move to the Washington, D.C. office.
(d) She does not think it would be a good idea to be working so closely with Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brenda seem to feel about Frank and Alan missing her party?

2. On page 30, what is being compared to an "infinite forest, the trunks and vines blocking out the light"?

3. In what way do Frank and Alan become "like the old partners" at the firm because of the Hardmann Roe case?

4. To what is Brenda compared when she leaps from Frank's arms on page 27?

5. What does the allusion to Frik and Frak imply about how the higher-ups at their firm see Alan and Frank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?

2. What do Frank and Alan do two months before their big case is supposed to be tried, and why do people tell them it is a bad idea?

3. What is the difference in Frank's and Alan's attitudes toward marriage?

4. What is the outcome of Frank and Alan's big case, and how does it impact their careers?

5. In what way is Alan's reaction to Nan different from Frank's?

6. What major event happens in Alan's life at Christmastime the year that Frank meets Nan, and how does Alan feel about it?

7. Explain the meaning of this metaphor used on page 23: "They were in the last rank of the armies of law."

8. Who is Brenda, and what is Franks' relationship with her in the first section of the text?

9. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?

10. What is similar and what is different about Frank's and Alan's fathers?

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