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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 chauffeur.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He is a professor.
(d) He is a chef.

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

3. Which workers were the first to begin a strike in the chapter The Strike?
(a) The railroad workers.
(b) Telephone company workers.
(c) Police officers.
(d) The sanitation workers.

4. Who wrote the treatise L'Horreur Economique?
(a) Jean Medicis.
(b) Nicole Lepen.
(c) Viviane Forrester.
(d) Celeste Prix.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What error displays most often on Gopnik's fax machine?

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

3. What percentage of the population was in favor of stopping work at fifty-five in The Chill?

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

5. What is the title of the daily sports paper in France?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Luke is born, what motivates Gopnik to move to Paris sooner rather than later?

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

3. Why are people worried that French cooking may be deteriorating?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What request does Jerome Meyssonier make when he agrees to be taken hostage in The Chill?

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

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