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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the daily sports paper in France?
(a) L'Equipe.
(b) Le Sports.
(c) Le Monde.
(d) Liberation.

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

3. Where does Adam take Luke on rainy days?
(a) The Ritz pool.
(b) The toy store.
(c) The taxidermy shop.
(d) The Luxembourg Gardens.

4. Which nationality champions producerism, according to Gopnik?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) American.
(d) Chinese.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Adam have to undergo before he was allowed to work out on the machines at this gym?

4. Who does Gopnik trace the history of French cuisine to?

5. Where is Luke's baby-sitter Nisha from?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Gopnik in "Paris to the Moon", how have Americans through the generations regarded Paris?

2. Why does Gopnik think that Prime Minister Alain Juppe was probably relieved by the Islamic terrorist bombing in Private Domain?

3. What did Gopnik name his "two cafe problem" after?

4. What action do the other employees take when an employee is fired over the altercation with the British tourist in Trouble at the Tower?

5. What game do the older children play at the carousel at the Luxembourg Gardens.

6. How did the movement to lower the age of retirement begin in France in The Chill?

7. How does the new owner of the Balzar respond to the protesters?

8. Why does Gopnik view the French as stubborn in the chapter, The Strike?

9. What idea does Alice have for a restaurant in the Louvre?

10. What was the goal of the strikers in the chapter, The Strike?

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