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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is implied about having offices "near the copying machines" (29)?
(a) The presence of secretaries making copies is distracting for Frank and Alan.
(b) It indicates Frank and Alan's low status.
(c) It allows Frank and Alan to hear all of the office gossip.
(d) The noise makes Frank and Alan less productive.

2. What is Frank referring to when he asks Brenda what she is going to do with "that beautiful struma" (27)?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her car.
(c) Her handbag.
(d) Her neck.

3. On the summer night when Alan and Frank go to Brenda's apartment, why do they end up missing her party?
(a) They misunderstood when it was supposed to start.
(b) They were not actually invited.
(c) They have been working late.
(d) They have been out drinking.

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

5. Who is Camille?
(a) Alan's wife.
(b) Alan's mother.
(c) Alan's sister.
(d) Alan's child.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Frank and Alan work on the Hardmann Roe case?

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

3. What is the one thing that Frank advises Alan he should not let his wife take in the divorce?

4. When Alan is talking about his divorce, what does Frank interrupt him to show him?

5. What does working on the Hardmann Roe case remind Frank and Alan of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "Hardmann Roe," and what role does it play in shaping Frank's and Alan's careers?

2. Who is Nan Christie, and what is her relationship to Frank?

3. What is the difference in Frank's and Alan's attitudes toward marriage?

4. What is similar and what is different about Frank's and Alan's fathers?

5. Explain the meaning of this metaphor used on page 23: "They were in the last rank of the armies of law."

6. What do Frank and Alan do two months before their big case is supposed to be tried, and why do people tell them it is a bad idea?

7. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?

8. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?

9. What is the outcome of Frank and Alan's big case, and how does it impact their careers?

10. Who is Brenda, and what is Franks' relationship with her in the first section of the text?

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