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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. How does the taxidermy shop make most of its money in Winter Circus?

2. Where is Adam attending the Baudrillard seminar in Winter Circus?

3. What does Nisha's spouse do for a job?

4. What food does Gopnik miss more than any other American food in Distant Errors?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Gopnik decides to finish the Rookie story?

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

4. What are the complaints of the waiters of the Balzar restaurant in A Handful of Cherries?

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

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

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

8. What prominent American trial does Gopnik compare Papon's trial with?

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

10. Why wouldn't the Rookie have fought in WWI?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gopnik establish the dichotomy between French and American thought in the novel? Illustrate it through at least three anecdotes?

Essay Topic 2

How is thematic patterning evident in "Paris to the Moon" and how does Gopnik orchestrate themes to create an overarching meaning?

Essay Topic 3

How does Gopnik illustrate the French penchant for over-dramatization and what does he delineate is the cause for their melodramatic ways?

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