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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. In which of the following queues does Petya offer to stand on Pushkin’s behalf?

2. With what customer service worker does Smitty confer?

3. What was the common evening meal Pushkin and Irina shared as farmers?

4. To which of the following is Pushkin compared?

5. What is the name of the artist with whom Pushkin confers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why, per “Hasta Luego,” is emotional contagion important?

3. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

4. Why does Touchett take the job Pennybrook offers him?

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

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

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

8. Why does Smitty’s wife demand Jerry get him out of the bar?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Table for Two? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Towles’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than urban fiction might Table for Two be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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