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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 are the details of the thick towels, Biedermeier desk, and private school meant to convey?
2. On the summer night when Alan and Frank go to Brenda's apartment, why do they end up missing her party?
3. Who is Camille?
4. When Alan is talking about his divorce, what does Frank interrupt him to show him?
5. What does Nan bring as a gift to the man who invites her over for tea?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Brenda, and what is Franks' relationship with her in the first section of the text?
2. What angers Frank so much at the bar and restaurant called "Jack's'?
3. What is the outcome of Frank and Alan's big case, and how does it impact their careers?
4. 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?
5. On page 29, what does Brenda say about "thin-lipped women," and how does Frank respond?
6. What does Frank tell Nan is the difference between men and women?
7. In what way is Alan's reaction to Nan different from Frank's?
8. What is the story that Nan Christie tells Frank about trying to find someone to date and marry?
9. Explain the meaning of this metaphor used on page 23: "They were in the last rank of the armies of law."
10. Who is Nan Christie, and what is her relationship to Frank?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the medical imagery in "American Express." Be sure to defend your assertions with quoted textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze how material possessions are used as a symbolic motif in "American Express." Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of references to religion in "American Express." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
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