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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. Where is Adam attending the Baudrillard seminar in Winter Circus?
2. Where did Papon flee to after he was convicted?
3. What color is the marquee of the Cafe Deux Magots?
4. What was the first fashion show that Gopnik attended in France?
5. In what way was Gopnik worried that the strike would affect his life in the chapter The Strike?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the French regard fact checking?
2. Why does the midwife advise Adam not to tell the cab driver that Martha is in labor when they go to the hospital?
3. Why does Gopnik realize that trying to buy out the owner of the Balzar would be unsuccessful in A Handful of Cherries?
4. When Adam and Martha tell friends that they are expecting a girl, what do their friends tell them?
5. Describe the engraving, Paris to the Moon, that Gopnik and his wife buy in Paris.
6. What observation does Gopnik make about French weather reports compared to those of an American place?
7. According to Gopnik, what purpose does soccer have?
8. What does Gopnik mean by the phrase "the law of Inverse Natural Appeal" in A Tale of Two Cafes?
9. Why does Gopnik view the French as stubborn in the chapter, The Strike?
10. Describe the Ritz pool.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the inclusion of current events in "Paris to the Moon" make Gopnik's theme more relevant to contemporary society?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how "Paris to the Moon" explores the issue of media and how simulated events contrast with reality. Include in your essay and explanation of Gopnik's statement that, "There is no Regulon in the Semiosphere."
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how Gopnik establishes the setting of Paris in the novel and how the setting contributes to the plot and themes introduced in the book.
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