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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 what year do Tommy and his wife begin to attend concerts at Carnegie Hall?
2. What flowers does Nell note in Central Park?
3. Which of the following does Jeremy note having eagerly read?
4. For which of the following does Nell work?
5. What college had Peggy attended?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator agree to go to Carnegie Hall with Tommy?
2. Why had Nell’s biological father started bringing weekly flowers to Peggy?
3. Why does Jeremy recommend against wearing a Mets cap when surveilling others?
4. What traits does Tommy possess that are helpful professionally but unhelpful personally?
5. How does Tommy get seats at Carnegie Hall?
6. How does the narrator note Tommy takes after his father?
7. What does the narrator note Tommy wore to propose to her?
8. What is Bobby Daniels’ current occupation?
9. What, per Nell, was at the root of Peggy’s fear about John?
10. Why does Jeremy recommend against taking a bottle of water when surveilling others?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of Table for Two on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the anthology? How does it do so?
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
Consider the ending of one selection in the anthology. Does it satisfy? How or how not?
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