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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. In the restaurant in Spoleto, what is Frank distracted by?
2. Which is the best description of the husband and wife conversation that Frank mimics?
3. What is playing on the car radio when Frank and Alan first give Eda a ride?
4. Where did Frank take Alan and Brenda in Paris?
5. What is the narrator implying about Brenda's discussion of her children with the comment "The first act was over.... Now came the plot" (37)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Frank decide not to tell Alan about his conversation with Eda, and why?
2. Whom do Frank and Alan meet in Arezzo, and how do they meet her?
3. When the second part of the story opens, where are Alan and Frank, and who is with them?
4. What is symbolic about the car that Frank and Alan are in while they tour Europe?
5. Where do Frank and Alan take Eda, and what does Frank buy her there?
6. In the hotel bar in Spoleto, what does Alan tell Frank about Europe, and what is Frank's response?
7. What joke does Brenda make about Italians during the conversation about espresso?
8. In the story's closing paragraphs, what is Alan thinking about, and why?
9. 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?
10. When Frank and Alan are leaving a Spoleto restaurant with Eda between them, what does the clerk say, and what is his meaning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of alcohol in "American Express." Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you analyze how material possessions are used as a symbolic motif in "American Express." Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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