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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. As which of the following does Nick describe Ben?

2. How does the novel gloss "petite salope"?

3. To what intimates store does Camille conduct Mimi?

4. What does Jess note would be her likely holiday costume?

5. What drink does Mendelson order Jess at Petite Mort?

Short Essay Questions

1. To where does Camille the apartment she shares with Mimi, and why?

2. What does Nick overhear his father discussing with Ben in the basement over wine (221)?

3. How are Mimi's paintings of Ben disfigured?

4. Why does Nick note he refuses to engage a prostitute in Amsterdam?

5. What distinguishing mark confirms for Jess that she recognizes a dancer at Petite Mort?

6. What do Jess and Mendelson pass as Irina leads them away from Petite Mort (285)?

7. To what does Ben call attention that gives Sophie concern about the concealment of her origins?

8. What question does Jess inadvertently voice to Nick in the roof garden (146)?

9. What reason does Irina give for excusing herself from Jess and Mendelson?

10. What advice does Mendelson give to Jess as they hasten towards the Petite Mort?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Notably, two chapters of the Saturday section of the novel announce their day of occurrence, contrasting with only one in each of the other sections. What significance, if any, accrues to the paratextual detail? How does it present itself?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Paris Apartment. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The crime on which the Meunier family fortune is based is of a particular sort. How would the novel differ were the crime of a different sort altogether? Why would it differ in that way?

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