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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Couture Shock and The Crisis in French Cooking.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Adam's cousin who had fled Paris for London and made a small fortune in banking?
(a) Philippe.
(b) Pierre.
(c) Max.
(d) Louis.

3. How much had Juppe rented his apartment to himself for?
(a) Five hundred dollars a month.
(b) Three thousand dollars a month.
(c) One thousand dollars a month.
(d) Five thousand dollars a month.

4. Which two American authors does Philippe Sollers debate with Gopnik?
(a) Fitzgerald and Twain.
(b) Sinclair and Faulkner.
(c) Roth and Updike.
(d) Dickinson and Hemingway.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book written by Juppe does Gopnik mention in Private Domain?

2. What is the name of the taxidermy shop on rue du Bac?

3. What does Gopnik call the notion that Americans wanted to consume in a world where workers were hidden or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting?

4. What company was M. Meyssonier the president of?

5. What color is the marquee of the Cafe Deux Magots?

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