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

2. What magazine is Nicole Wisniak an editor for?
(a) Elle.
(b) Egoiste.
(c) Liberte.
(d) Marie Claire.

3. Where are most of the fashion shows held in Couture Shock?
(a) Theatres.
(b) Museums.
(c) Hotels.
(d) Restaurants.

4. 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?
(a) Paris in July.
(b) Disney World.
(c) Wonderland.
(d) McDonalds.

5. What error displays most often on Gopnik's fax machine?
(a) Bourage de papier.
(b) Pas d'identitie.
(c) Pas de probleme.
(d) Erreur distante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students want to achieve from their strike?

2. What percentage of the population was in favor of stopping work at fifty-five in The Chill?

3. What color of frame did the Gopniks frame their engraving of Paris to the Moon?

4. What is the name of the movement that brought an emphasis on spices to compete with this ethic of the soil?

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

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