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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 year did Gopnik enjoy his first stay in Paris for one year?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1991.

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

3. Which famous writer had once been the mayor of Bordeaux, as mentioned in the chapter Private Domain?
(a) Emile Zola.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Montaigne.
(d) Pascal.

4. After the tourist, a successful writer, formed a complaint against the tower employee in Trouble at the Tower, what action was taken?
(a) The employee was fired.
(b) The woman was credited money.
(c) The woman was barred from riding the tower again.
(d) Nothing happened and her complaint was dismissed.

5. Which publication first revealed that Juppe had leased an apartment from the domaine privee of the city of Paris?
(a) The weekly comic paper Le Canard Enchaine.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Le Monde.
(d) The British paper, The Financial Times.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the unemployment rate in France in The Chill?

3. Where did Papon flee to after he was convicted?

4. What position did Maurice Papon have in the Gironde department?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the engraving, Paris to the Moon, that Gopnik and his wife buy in Paris.

3. What game does Adam play with Luke at the Ritz pool?

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 idea does Alice have for a restaurant in the Louvre?

6. In Distant Errors, Christmas Journal 2, how does Gopnik feel about his experience of immigrating to Paris?

7. How does Gopnik regard soccer at the beginning of The World Cup.

8. What does Gopnik think is the sublime moment in cooking?

9. According to Gopnik, what is the French dream of producerism?

10. What is the "machine to draw the world"?

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