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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "American Express" pages 35-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frank give the portiere 40,000 lire?
(a) To drive Eda to Frank's hotel and home again.
(b) To pretend to Eda's parents that Eda has a job at the hotel.
(c) To give to Eda when she leaves Frank's room.
(d) To ignore Eda's presence in Frank's room.

2. How does Frank strike up a conversation with Eda?
(a) He asks her for directions.
(b) He offers her sweets.
(c) He pretends to know her parents.
(d) He picks up her fallen school books.

3. Where is Eda when they first see her?
(a) Selling jewelry in the market.
(b) Coming through an arch near a church.
(c) Working at the hotel desk.
(d) Riding in her parents' car.

4. What are the details of the thick towels, Biedermeier desk, and private school meant to convey?
(a) Frank's good taste.
(b) Frank's snobbery.
(c) Frank's success.
(d) Frank's insecurity.

5. When Frank tells Alan that he can drive Brenda to Rome himself, what does Brenda tell Frank?
(a) That he is a lawyer even in his personal life.
(b) That one day Alan will get fed up with him.
(c) That he has no idea how to treat women.
(d) That he should have become a politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied in the discussion of the case that Alan's father tries "in another part of the state" (25)?

2. What is Frank referring to when he asks Brenda what she is going to do with "that beautiful struma" (27)?

3. What technique is used in the sentence, "Which was what made them inseparable, the hours of work, the lyric, the dreams" (26)?

4. From context, what is likely true about the Century Club?

5. Which word is twice used to describe the way Eda looks?

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