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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Winter Circus—The Strike and The Winter Circus, Christmas Journal 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luke like to do outside the toy store on the boulevard Saint-Germain?
(a) Listen to the street performers.
(b) Ride the musical horse.
(c) Look at the window at the displays.
(d) Eat a giant scoop of ice cream.

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

3. What was the profession of Gopnik's parents?
(a) They were college professors.
(b) They were both writers.
(c) They were chefs.
(d) They were artists.

4. Which workers were the first to begin a strike in the chapter The Strike?
(a) The sanitation workers.
(b) Telephone company workers.
(c) The railroad workers.
(d) Police officers.

5. When did Gopnik and his wife go to Paris before their move there in 1995?
(a) They stayed there for a week before they were married.
(b) They had never been to Paris together before the move in 1995.
(c) They lived there for their first year of marriage in 1989.
(d) They went there on their honeymoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Juppe in Private Domain?

2. What movie star did Gopnik and his cousin fall in love with, when they were boys?

3. How did Adam first hear about the bomb going off in the Left Bank?

4. How many remotes does Gopnik receive for his television in Winter Circus?

5. Who appointed Juppe to his position as Prime Minister?

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