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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 does Percival eat?

2. What is the given name of the DiDomenico whose fragment features in the story?

3. On what street is La Maison?

4. In what year is Percival born?

5. On what street does Peggy live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, per Percival, are there few DiDomenico paintings?

2. In what does Percival situate the origin of his family’s fortunes?

3. How does the narrator contrast popular and Classical music?

4. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

5. Why does Jeremy recommend against taking a bottle of water when surveilling others?

6. Why had Nell’s biological father started bringing weekly flowers to Peggy?

7. Summarize Percival’s opinion of Madeline Davis.

8. What had Peggy summoned Nell to discuss most recently prior to the beginning of “I Will Survive”?

9. How does Percival get into clubs of which he is not a member?

10. Why does the narrator agree to go to Carnegie Hall with Tommy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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, 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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