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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 color is the marquee of the Cafe de Flore?
(a) White with green lettering.
(b) Green with gilt lettering.
(c) Red with black lettering.
(d) White with black lettering.

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

3. When Gopnik sits on a panel in Distant Errors, who does the panel blame for the American dominance of culture?
(a) The CIA and Ford.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) The CIA and Disney.
(d) Walmart and McDonald's.

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

5. What is Gopnik's model of fax machine?
(a) Timprenteur 2000.
(b) Galeo 5000.
(c) Le Premiere fax.
(d) Le Presidente.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the prosecution consider Papon's sentence?

2. Which publication first revealed that Juppe had leased an apartment from the domaine privee of the city of Paris?

3. How did Adam first hear about the bomb going off in the Left Bank?

4. What is the name of the movement that brought an emphasis on spices to compete with this ethic of the soil?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gopnik regret after New Years in One Last Year?

2. What observation does Gopnik make about French weather reports compared to those of an American place?

3. According to Gopnik, how do the French see life?

4. What prompts Gopnik to invent the bedtime story of The Rookie for his son Luke?

5. Describe the Ritz pool.

6. What did Gopnik observe of the other patrons after he dove into the pool at the Ritz?

7. What does Gopnik mean by the phrase "the law of Inverse Natural Appeal" in A Tale of Two Cafes?

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

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

10. When Adam and Martha tell friends that they are expecting a girl, what do their friends tell them?

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