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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 implied about having offices "near the copying machines" (29)?
2. What is the one thing that Frank advises Alan he should not let his wife take in the divorce?
3. What does Nan bring as a gift to the man who invites her over for tea?
4. What technique is used in the sentence, "Which was what made them inseparable, the hours of work, the lyric, the dreams" (26)?
5. What is Frank referring to when he asks Brenda what she is going to do with "that beautiful struma" (27)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the story that Nan Christie tells Frank about trying to find someone to date and marry?
2. What is "Hardmann Roe," and what role does it play in shaping Frank's and Alan's careers?
3. Who is Nan Christie, and what is her relationship to Frank?
4. What is similar and what is different about Frank's and Alan's fathers?
5. What does Frank tell Nan is the difference between men and women?
6. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?
7. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?
8. What major event happens in Alan's life at Christmastime the year that Frank meets Nan, and how does Alan feel about it?
9. How does Nan react when Frank tells her his theory about the difference between men and women?
10. What is the outcome of Frank and Alan's big case, and how does it impact their careers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that examines both the causes and consequences of Frank's restlessness. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of self-absorption in Frank's and Alan's lives. In what ways does it both help and hinder them? Do they both possess this characteristic to the same degree? Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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