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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. How does Frank strike up a conversation with Eda?
(a) He pretends to know her parents.
(b) He offers her sweets.
(c) He picks up her fallen school books.
(d) He asks her for directions.

2. Where are Frank, Alan, and Brenda at the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Near Padua.
(b) Near Lugano.
(c) Near Spoleto.
(d) Near Como.

3. Why is Brenda heading to Rome?
(a) Rome is where her flight to New York is leaving from.
(b) Rome is where she is supposed to meet an old friend.
(c) Rome is where her mother and daughters are waiting for her.
(d) Rome is where she is thinking of moving.

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)?
(a) A liquid like water or wine.
(b) A water treatment facility.
(c) A science experiment.
(d) A glass or chalice.

5. What is the English translation of the word "Basta" (41)?
(a) Please.
(b) More.
(c) Enough.
(d) Later.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Frank and Alan drink in Venice?

3. 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)?

4. 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)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is symbolic about the car that Frank and Alan are in while they tour Europe?

3. What is Eda's reaction to Frank's explanation of the situation with Alan, and how does Frank treat her decision?

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

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. When the second part of the story opens, where are Alan and Frank, and who is with them?

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

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

9. 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?

10. What has happened in Brenda's life since she and Frank broke up?

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