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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. What is the name of the firm where Frank and Alan begin their legal careers?
(a) Cook, Hopewell.
(b) Weyland, Braun.
(c) Denton, Meyer.
(d) Abbott, Yeardley.

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

3. What does Frank like about Brenda?
(a) Her voice.
(b) Her sophistication.
(c) Her sense of humor.
(d) Her intelligence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Brenda not want to take the promotion she has been offered?

3. What kind of company is Hardmann Roe?

4. What is Alan's page 33 assessment of Cummings, their classmate who now serves in Congress?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank tell Nan is the difference between men and women?

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

3. How does Nan react when Frank tells her his theory about the difference between men and women?

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

5. Who is Nan Christie, and what is her relationship to Frank?

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

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

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

9. What is "Hardmann Roe," and what role does it play in shaping Frank's and Alan's careers?

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

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