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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic comes up during Newman's first visit to see Claire?
(a) Newman's home in San Francisco.
(b) A plague that is taking over the city.
(c) Newman's business ventures.
(d) How much everyone hates the queen.

2. What does Noemie's father offer to teach Newman when they first meet?
(a) How to play the stock market.
(b) French.
(c) How to paint.
(d) How to play badmitton.

3. In what magazine was "The American" originally published as a series?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) The Atlantic Monthly.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Time.

4. Where does Newman first see Noemie?
(a) At an open-air market.
(b) Outside on the sidewalk.
(c) In the Louvre.
(d) On a commuter train.

5. How much is the final price of Noemie's painting when it is delivered?
(a) 3,000 francs.
(b) 3,000,000 francs.
(c) 300,000 francs.
(d) 30,000 francs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tristam want Newman to go so they can play poker together?

2. What does Newman use, when the novel opens, as a guide for the Louvre?

3. Where is Newman from?

4. When Newman comes to visit Claire's home for the first time, what happens?

5. Whom does Newman leave behind when he begins his formal tour of Europe?

(see the answer key)

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