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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of track suits do the employees of Adam's gym wear?

2. When did Gopnik and his wife go to Paris before their move there in 1995?

3. What did Gopnik need to do before he could receive his carte de sejour?

4. Which is not one of the restaurants mentioned in the first chapter, Paris to the Moon?

5. What did Adam and Martha buy from BHV, that they had to return in The Winter Circus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Gopnik object to more transparency in France?

4. How are pregnant women treated in France?

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

6. How do the French feel about American Halloween?

7. According to Gopnik, how do the French feel about American-style sports and stadiums?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gopnik utilize literary framing devices in "Paris to the Moon" and is he effective in using them. Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and discuss Gopnik's use of the literary tool of hyperbole, using at least three textual examples to illustrate how Gopnik employs it.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Gopnik establishes the setting of Paris in the novel and how the setting contributes to the plot and themes introduced in the book.

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