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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Winter Circus—The Strike and The Winter Circus, Christmas Journal 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nisha's spouse do for a job?
(a) He is a doctor.
(b) He is a chauffeur.
(c) He is a professor.
(d) He is a chef.

2. How does Paris look at the time of the strike in the chapter, The Strike?
(a) The city seems gray and drab in the wake of all the negative strike propaganda.
(b) It is very dirty due to the sanitation workers striking.
(c) It seems cheerful and sunny and spring is coming.
(d) It is decorated for Christmas.

3. Which area of Paris does Gopnik find his apartment in?
(a) He isn't able to find an apartment in Paris and moves to the suburbs.
(b) The Seventh Arrondissement.
(c) The Sixth Arrondissement.
(d) The Fourth Arrondissment.

4. What is the name of Adam's cousin who had fled Paris for London and made a small fortune in banking?
(a) Pierre.
(b) Philippe.
(c) Louis.
(d) Max.

5. What did Adam and Martha buy from BHV, that they had to return in The Winter Circus?
(a) An iron.
(b) A television.
(c) A teapot.
(d) A toaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the taxidermy shop make most of its money in Winter Circus?

2. What book written by Juppe does Gopnik mention in Private Domain?

3. How did Adam first hear about the bomb going off in the Left Bank?

4. Which famous writer had once been the mayor of Bordeaux, as mentioned in the chapter Private Domain?

5. Which workers were the first to begin a strike in the chapter The Strike?

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