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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 is the name of the police officer with whom Nick and Jess meet?

2. What bag does Mendelson thrust at Jess?

3. Of what does Jess note Mendelson's cologne smells?

4. What brand of dress does Mendelson give Jess?

5. Which of the following is noted as the red-light district of Amsterdam?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jacques disparage the university Nick and Ben attended?

2. Why does the concierge have an expansive set of keys to the building?

3. In brief, what does Irina say of Petite Mort's business?

4. How does Sophie know Ben has not gone where he said he would go when he excuses himself from the reception she hosts?

5. What reason does Irina have for having come to France?

6. Why did Ben and Nick bribe a Hungarian guard?

7. What does Mimi find among the contents of Ben's notebook?

8. In his altercation with Antoine, how does Nick try to comfort himself?

9. As the meeting among Sophie, Nick, Antoine, and Mimi begins, Nick notices something off about Sophie; what is it?

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

What overall attitude towards intoxicants does the novel display? What in the text demonstrates that attitude, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of Amsterdam being the setting for the events that take place in it.

Essay Topic 3

What narrative function is served by the Prologue? How is it served?

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