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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the magazine that Adam Gopnik works as a correspondent for?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Wired.
(c) Better Homes and Garden.
(d) Time Magazine.

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

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

6. How does the taxidermy shop make most of its money in Winter Circus?
(a) Stuffing animals for various zoos.
(b) Stuffing exotic animals from hunting expeditions.
(c) Stuffing beloved family pets.
(d) Selling bugs and butterflies to collectors.

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

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

9. What movie star did Gopnik and his cousin fall in love with, when they were boys?
(a) Charlotte Redoux.
(b) Audrey Hepburn.
(c) Jacqueline Bisset.
(d) Catherine Deneuve.

10. Which designer created a forest-like set in Couture Shock?
(a) Valentino.
(b) Olivier Lapidus.
(c) Yves Saint Laurent.
(d) Ungaro.

11. 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) Place Zinedine.
(c) Le Stade Platini.
(d) Verlaine.

12. What was Papon accused of during his trial?
(a) Complicity in crimes against humanity.
(b) First degree murder.
(c) Theft.
(d) Embezzlement of goods taken from Jewish holocaust victims.

13. Why don't Adam and Nicole eat at Cafe de Flores in A Tale of Two Cafes?
(a) It is unfashionable.
(b) Nicole does not like the food.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) There aren't any tables available.

14. Where is Gopnik's fax machine made?
(a) It is a U.S. machine he brought over.
(b) It is made by France Telecom in France.
(c) It is made in Sweden.
(d) It is made in China.

15. What is the name of the taxidermy shop on rue du Bac?
(a) Orlovska.
(b) Oiseau.
(c) Dreyolle.
(d) Minochette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gym did Adam and Martha first try out on in Paris?

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

3. How do French intellectuals regard the affect of American culture on France?

4. According to Gopnik in Distant Errors, what is the magic American word?

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

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