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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. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett demur from forging?

2. To what airport does Jerry mean to fly?

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

4. For which of the following does Marya Borevna queue while Pushkin queues on her behalf?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

3. How do Pushkin and Irina regard Moscow upon their arrival?

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

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

6. What qualities does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” note are needed to read collections of letters?

7. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

9. How does Touchett propose to meet his professional goals?

10. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between a short story and a novella? What in the anthology and in your readerly experience provide evidence for that difference? How does the evidence serve to prove the difference?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of one selection in the anthology. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Table for Two. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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