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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 Frank referring to when he asks Brenda what she is going to do with "that beautiful struma" (27)?
2. To what is Brenda compared when she leaps from Frank's arms on page 27?
3. What does Nan bring as a gift to the man who invites her over for tea?
4. What are the details of the thick towels, Biedermeier desk, and private school meant to convey?
5. What is Alan's page 33 assessment of Cummings, their classmate who now serves in Congress?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the outcome of Frank and Alan's big case, and how does it impact their careers?
2. In what way is Alan's reaction to Nan different from Frank's?
3. How does Nan react when Frank tells her his theory about the difference between men and women?
4. Explain the meaning of this metaphor used on page 23: "They were in the last rank of the armies of law."
5. What is similar and what is different about Frank's and Alan's fathers?
6. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?
7. What is the difference in Frank's and Alan's attitudes toward marriage?
8. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?
9. Who is Brenda, and what is Franks' relationship with her in the first section of the text?
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 characterization of Frank in "American Express." Defend your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of references to religion in "American Express." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 3
In a well-known interview with Edward Hirsch, Salter said, "Pure masculinity...is tedious and inadequate." Write an essay in which you analyze the extent to which "American Express" supports this observation. Use textual evidence to support your claims.
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