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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Handful of Cherries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stadium eventually named in The Rules of the Sport?
(a) Place Zinedine.
(b) L'espirit de Sport.
(c) The French Stadium.
(d) Le Stade Platini.

2. Where do the Gopnik's spend the month of August while they live in Paris?
(a) In England.
(b) Back home in America.
(c) In the south of France.
(d) They like to stay in Paris and observe the tourists.

3. What is the name of the author of Les Enfants de Saturne, who Gopnik contacts in A Tale of Two Cafes?
(a) Roger Cazes.
(b) Charles Maurras.
(c) Paul Boubal.
(d) Jean-Paul Enthove.

4. What is not one of the names suggested for the new stadium in The Rules of the Sport?
(a) Place Zinedine.
(b) Verlaine.
(c) Le Stade Platini.
(d) They wanted to name it after Saint-Exupery.

5. What company was M. Meyssonier the president of?
(a) A sanitation company.
(b) A telephone company.
(c) A mortgage lending company.
(d) An engineering firm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Givenchy show held in Couture Shock?

2. What is the name of the French economist who claimed that the U.S. economy was stagnant?

3. What was Martha's profession?

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

5. Why don't Adam and Nicole eat at Cafe de Flores in A Tale of Two Cafes?

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