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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. After they drop Eda off, what does Alan say to Frank about the encounter?
2. Where are Frank, Alan, and Brenda at the beginning of Part 2?
3. What kind of coffee does Frank ask Brenda about?
4. What technique is used in the sentence, "On the curtained upper floors the legs of countesses uncoiled, slithering on the sheets like a serpent" (38)?
5. What does Frank offer Eda while they are in the car riding around Arezzo?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Brenda suggest to Frank about New York, and what is it implied that she is hinting about?
2. What happens between Frank and Eda in his hotel room?
3. Where do Frank and Alan take Eda, and what does Frank buy her there?
4. What do Frank and Brenda fight about when it is time for her to leave Italy, and how does Alan become involved in the argument?
5. What joke does Brenda make about Italians during the conversation about espresso?
6. In the hotel bar in Spoleto, what does Alan tell Frank about Europe, and what is Frank's response?
7. What does the narrative imply happens between Alan and Eda on the night before the story ends, and what is Alan's reaction to it in the morning?
8. When Frank and Alan are leaving a Spoleto restaurant with Eda between them, what does the clerk say, and what is his meaning?
9. What is symbolic about the car that Frank and Alan are in while they tour Europe?
10. What does Frank decide not to tell Alan about his conversation with Eda, and why?
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 role of class differences in "American Express." Support your assertions with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the role of the law in "American Express." Be sure to support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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