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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Papon's Paper Trail and Trouble at the Tower.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class is most enthusiastic about the strikes in France?
(a) The upper class.
(b) The middle class.
(c) All classes are equally invested in strikes.
(d) The lower class.

2. Who wrote the treatise L'Horreur Economique?
(a) Viviane Forrester.
(b) Nicole Lepen.
(c) Celeste Prix.
(d) Jean Medicis.

3. Where is Luke's baby-sitter Nisha from?
(a) Senegal.
(b) Sri Lanka.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Argentina.

4. Where is Adam attending the Baudrillard seminar in Winter Circus?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Beaubourg.
(c) Lycee Paris.
(d) The Sorbonne.

5. What do the French insist on putting on their Christmas trees?
(a) A series of cuts in the stem marking the day it was cut.
(b) A wooden cross at the bottom that makes it difficult to water the tree.
(c) Real candles on the boughs.
(d) A nutcracker hidden in the boughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of track suits do the employees of Adam's gym wear?

2. Shortly after the problem with the tourist, why was the tower closed for several days in Trouble at the Tower?

3. How much had Juppe rented his apartment to himself for?

4. When Gopnik sits on a panel in Distant Errors, who does the panel blame for the American dominance of culture?

5. How did the prosecution consider Papon's sentence?

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