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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 does Nisha's spouse do for a job?
(a) He is a doctor.
(b) He is a chauffeur.
(c) He is a chef.
(d) He is a professor.

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

3. 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) A wooden cross at the bottom that makes it difficult to water the tree.
(d) Real candles on the boughs.

4. Who appointed Juppe to his position as Prime Minister?
(a) Christine Ockrent.
(b) Jacques Chirac.
(c) Edouard Balladur.
(d) He was voted in by the populace.

5. How did Adam first hear about the bomb going off in the Left Bank?
(a) In the newspaper, Le Monde.
(b) From the television.
(c) From the street sweeper.
(d) From the lady who keeps the striped-pajama boutique.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which area of Paris does Gopnik find his apartment in?

2. After the tourist, a successful writer, formed a complaint against the tower employee in Trouble at the Tower, what action was taken?

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

4. How does Paris look at the time of the strike in the chapter, The Strike?

5. What year did Gopnik enjoy his first stay in Paris for one year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ancient carousel in the Luxembourg Gardens.

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

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

4. Why does Gopnik realize that trying to buy out the owner of the Balzar would be unsuccessful in A Handful of Cherries?

5. According to Gopnik, what purpose does soccer have?

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

7. How does Gopnik describe the video personality, Barney?

8. What type of reaction does Alice have towards vegetables at the market?

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

10. According to Gopnik, why do most people love Paris?

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