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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 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) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Metaphor.

2. 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) An Italian opera.
(c) A story about the Korean War.
(d) American big band music.

3. What has Frank been shopping for while in Italy?
(a) Art.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Jewelry and watches.

4. Why does Frank buy postcards in Arezzo?
(a) To send to clients.
(b) To send to Brenda.
(c) To send to Nan.
(d) For Alan to send to his daughter.

5. 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)?
(a) Italy has different clothing standards.
(b) She has been out all night.
(c) Alan's eyesight is poor.
(d) Italians are more relaxed about time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Eda when they first see her?

2. Why does Frank give the portiere 40,000 lire?

3. What is Eda's reaction to Frank's suggestion that she be "shared" between him and Alan?

4. What is Alan's life being compared to in the sentence, "It seemed that his life was being clarified, the sediment was drifting down" (39)?

5. What does Alan notice about Frank when Frank gets out of the car with Eda after they drop her off?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story's closing paragraphs, what is Alan thinking about, and why?

2. What joke does Brenda make about Italians during the conversation about espresso?

3. What does Frank decide not to tell Alan about his conversation with Eda, and why?

4. What does the narrative imply happens between Alan and Eda on the night before the story ends, and what is Alan's reaction to it in the morning?

5. When Frank and Alan are leaving a Spoleto restaurant with Eda between them, what does the clerk say, and what is his meaning?

6. What happens between Frank and Eda in his hotel room?

7. Where do Frank and Alan take Eda, and what does Frank buy her there?

8. Whom do Frank and Alan meet in Arezzo, and how do they meet her?

9. In the hotel bar in Spoleto, what does Alan tell Frank about Europe, and what is Frank's response?

10. What do Frank and Brenda fight about when it is time for her to leave Italy, and how does Alan become involved in the argument?

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