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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rules of the Sport and The Chill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 seems cheerful and sunny and spring is coming.
(c) It is decorated for Christmas.
(d) It is very dirty due to the sanitation workers striking.

2. What color of track suits do the employees of Adam's gym wear?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

3. What was the unemployment rate in France in The Chill?
(a) 15 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 8 percent.
(d) 12 percent.

4. What did Adam and Martha buy from BHV, that they had to return in The Winter Circus?
(a) A toaster.
(b) A television.
(c) An iron.
(d) A teapot.

5. What is the name of the magazine that Adam Gopnik works as a correspondent for?
(a) Wired.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) Better Homes and Garden.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gopnik need to do before he could receive his carte de sejour?

2. What is the stadium eventually named in The Rules of the Sport?

3. Which publication first revealed that Juppe had leased an apartment from the domaine privee of the city of Paris?

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

5. When did Gopnik and his wife go to Paris before their move there in 1995?

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