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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rookie.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the taxidermy shop make most of its money in Winter Circus?
(a) Stuffing exotic animals from hunting expeditions.
(b) Selling bugs and butterflies to collectors.
(c) Stuffing animals for various zoos.
(d) Stuffing beloved family pets.

2. What ability does the Rookie have when he is discovered?
(a) He can catch all types of balls.
(b) He can see a fly from one hundred yards away.
(c) He can throw stones with surprising accuracy.
(d) He can run faster than boys twice his age.

3. How many Jews were deported to Auschwitz death camp while Papon was in power?
(a) 50.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 500.
(d) 3,000.

4. How many haute couture shows were in Paris in Couture Shock?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

5. How does Paris look at the time of the strike in the chapter, The Strike?
(a) It is decorated for Christmas.
(b) The city seems gray and drab in the wake of all the negative strike propaganda.
(c) It is very dirty due to the sanitation workers striking.
(d) It seems cheerful and sunny and spring is coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Adam attending the Baudrillard seminar in Winter Circus?

2. What percentage of the population was in favor of stopping work at fifty-five in The Chill?

3. In what way was Gopnik worried that the strike would affect his life in the chapter The Strike?

4. Who wrote the treatise L'Horreur Economique?

5. What is the name of the gym Adam and Martha eventually join?

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