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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Alan's family's religious background?
2. On the night of Brenda's party, how long has Alan been in New York?
3. What does working on the Hardmann Roe case remind Frank and Alan of?
4. To what is Brenda compared when she leaps from Frank's arms on page 27?
5. What is the one thing that Frank advises Alan he should not let his wife take in the divorce?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is "Hardmann Roe," and what role does it play in shaping Frank's and Alan's careers?
2. What is the story that Nan Christie tells Frank about trying to find someone to date and marry?
3. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?
4. What does Frank tell Nan is the difference between men and women?
5. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?
6. 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?
7. What is the difference in Frank's and Alan's attitudes toward marriage?
8. Explain the meaning of this metaphor used on page 23: "They were in the last rank of the armies of law."
9. What is similar and what is different about Frank's and Alan's fathers?
10. Who is Nan Christie, and what is her relationship to Frank?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of class differences in "American Express." Support your assertions with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the medical imagery in "American Express." Be sure to defend your assertions with quoted textual evidence.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes a claim about the purpose of including Alan in the story--why not just make the story about Frank, and leave Alan out entirely? Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
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