View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many rooms does the cottage boast in which Pushkin and Irina lived?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. What flavoring is Pushkin tasked to add to his collective’s product?
(a) Cinammon.
(b) Onion.
(c) Vanilla.
(d) Nutmeg.

3. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?
(a) Heraclitus.
(b) Parmenides.
(c) Democritus.
(d) Anaximander.

4. When does Irina first learn Communist doctrine?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

5. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett forge?
(a) Macondald.
(b) Hellmann.
(c) Hammett.
(d) Chandler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is Touchett reading as “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” begins?

2. In what Moscow district do Irina and Pushkin initially take up residence?

3. At what hotel does Jerry seek to stay?

4. How long is the bakery queue with Pushkin first reaches it?

5. Which of the following authors’ works does Touchett sign?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what does “The Line” assert “the wisdom of the peasant is founded” (5)?

2. When does Touchett call on Pennybrook, and why?

3. What does Jerry note is the virtue of having a flight canceled early?

4. Why does Jerry agree to do as Smitty’s wife bids?

5. Why is “Prufrock” a poor choice for seductive reading, per “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett”?

6. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

7. Why is Pushkin pleased the bakery where he initially queues offers only one product?

8. What does “The Line” suggest makes a discussion of the weather a pleasantry?

9. How does Touchett’s work on Dos Passos’s signature come across?

10. How does “Hasta Luego” gloss the term “emotional contagion”?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 456 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample