View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does a waiter recommend to Sophie instead of steak?

2. What cocktail does Victor offer Jess?

3. Which of Nick and Ben's friends had a drug incident in Berlin?

4. What meaning does the concierge assert for her daughter's name?

5. In what part of Paris is the intimates store to which Camille conducts Mimi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mimi conceal herself from Ben and his visitor?

2. What advice does Mendelson give to Jess as they hasten towards the Petite Mort?

3. How does Mimi costume herself for the party?

4. As Mimi recovers from upset in Sophie's bathroom (141-43), what does she hear Ben's voice say?

5. How does Mendelson justify his conduct to Jess?

6. Why, per Sophie, does Jacques seek a second wife where he does?

7. What does Sophie note is her usual restaurant order?

8. What reason does Irina give for excusing herself from Jess and Mendelson?

9. What do Jess and Mendelson pass as Irina leads them away from Petite Mort (285)?

10. To what does Ben call attention that gives Sophie concern about the concealment of her origins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of The Paris Apartment on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The crime on which the Meunier family fortune is based is of a particular sort. How would the novel differ were the crime of a different sort altogether? Why would it differ in that way?

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than mystery might The Paris Apartment belong? What in the novel indicates that it belongs in the genre? How does it do so?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 609 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample