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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Handful of Cherries.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Adam and Martha miss about New York in The Rookie?
(a) The newspapers.
(b) The carrot cake.
(c) The consensual anonymity.
(d) Central Park.

5. Which is not one of the restaurants mentioned in the first chapter, Paris to the Moon?
(a) Le Souffle.
(b) Le Sasilic.
(c) Chez Andre.
(d) Chez Doux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the marquee of the Cafe de Flore?

2. How old is the Rookie when he is discovered in 1908?

3. What class is most enthusiastic about the strikes in France?

4. What bothers Gopnik most about soccer?

5. How many weeks of vacation are the French people guaranteed by law?

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