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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’ works does Touchett sign?

2. With which of the following is Petya rewarded for queueing up for others?

3. What brand of vodka does Smitty purloin?

4. Where does Susie work?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

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

8. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, what differences in effect on the reader exist among the individual entries in Table for Two? From what do those differences proceed? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

Some of the selections in the anthology are written from a first-person narrative perspective. Some are written from a third-person narrative perspective. What difference do the different perspectives make on the reading? What in the text and in experience result in those differences and how do they do so?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, how does the anthology present the use of alcohol and other drugs? What significance accrues to that presentation—or, if no significance accrues to that presentation, to what effect is the presentation made?

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