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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 listen to when he road the bicycle in The Rules of the Sport?
(a) He listens to the conversation of those working out around him.
(b) Stones on his walkman.
(c) He watches CNN on the television.
(d) He listens to a book on tape.

2. Which workers were the first to begin a strike in the chapter The Strike?
(a) Telephone company workers.
(b) The sanitation workers.
(c) Police officers.
(d) The railroad workers.

3. What prevents signs and cultures from going universal?
(a) Art.
(b) Language.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

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

5. What is the name of the author of Les Enfants de Saturne, who Gopnik contacts in A Tale of Two Cafes?
(a) Jean-Paul Enthove.
(b) Charles Maurras.
(c) Roger Cazes.
(d) Paul Boubal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not one of the animals mentioned in the taxidermy shop in Winter Circus?

2. Which famous writer had once been the mayor of Bordeaux, as mentioned in the chapter Private Domain?

3. Who wrote the treatise L'Horreur Economique?

4. Which is not one of the restaurants mentioned in the first chapter, Paris to the Moon?

5. How old is Luke when the Gopniks arrived in Paris?

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