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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what airport does Jerry mean to fly?
(a) JFK.
(b) Newark.
(c) Dulles.
(d) National.

2. Which of the following writers does Touchett idolize?
(a) Welty.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) Porter.
(d) Grey.

3. Which of the following author’s signatures does Touchett copy idly?
(a) Capote.
(b) Stein.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Woolf.

4. The bakery to which Irina dispatches Pushkin is on what street?
(a) Povarskaya.
(b) Maxim Gorky.
(c) Tverskaya.
(d) Battleship Potemkin.

5. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?
(a) Kong Qiu.
(b) Mencius.
(c) Xunzi.
(d) Lao Tzu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which of the following is Jerry reminded by a fellow elevator passenger?

2. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett forge?

3. Under what article of the Criminal Code does the NKVD convict intellectuals of counterrevolutionary activities?

4. From what city does a retired couple rescheduling their flight come?

5. In what baggage item does Jerry delight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what does Pushkin compare the Communist speaker he and Irina first hear?

3. What does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” note an extra $50 per week might allow?

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

5. How does Irina react to the Communist speaker she and Pushkin first hear?

6. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

7. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

8. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

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

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