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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 color of track suits do the employees of Adam's gym wear?

2. What is the name of the magazine that Adam Gopnik works as a correspondent for?

3. What is the name of the French economist who claimed that the U.S. economy was stagnant?

4. Which two American authors does Philippe Sollers debate with Gopnik?

5. What magazine is Nicole Wisniak an editor for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Gopnik to invent the bedtime story of The Rookie for his son Luke?

2. How did the movement to lower the age of retirement begin in France in The Chill?

3. What do men generally discuss to break the ice in France?

4. When Adam and Martha tell friends that they are expecting a girl, what do their friends tell them?

5. Why wouldn't the Rookie have fought in WWI?

6. What request does Jerome Meyssonier make when he agrees to be taken hostage in The Chill?

7. What are the complaints of the waiters of the Balzar restaurant in A Handful of Cherries?

8. What does Gopnik think the strike illustrates about the French way of coping with difficulties?

9. What was the goal of the strikers in the chapter, The Strike?

10. How does Gopnik describe the video personality, Barney?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gopnik utilize literary framing devices in "Paris to the Moon" and is he effective in using them. Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Identify at least three extended metaphors included in "Paris to the Moon" and discuss how Gopnik establishes them and uses them to contribute to thematic patterning.

Essay Topic 3

Identify at least three instance where Gopnik uses objects or places as symbols, and discuss how he creates the symbolism and uses it accentuate themes.

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