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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. Whose plays had Margaret’s workplace hosted?

2. Whose lithograph had Sylvia gotten in Paris?

3. With what piece does a ten-year-old make a mistake while playing against Ivan?

4. What age does Ivan posit Ollie is?

5. What is Christine’s maiden name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had one of his clients refused to pay Ivan?

2. Why does Margaret accept Ivan’s initial invitation to join him in his lodgings?

3. With what does Naomi assume Peter has been occupied at the beginning of the novel?

4. Why does Margaret ask Ivan not to discuss their first night together?

5. Why does Peter initially decline to contest eviction orders against Naomi?

6. How does Naomi respond to online comments threatening her?

7. Why is Sylvia reluctant to discuss her physical condition?

8. What part of the Gospels does Sylvia note confuses her?

9. What does Anna talk to Margaret about regarding mosquitos?

10. Why does Ivan regard profit as an inefficiency?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel betrays particular attitudes about what work is. What are those attitudes, and how do they manifest in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Intermezzo? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the title of the novel to the text of the novel.

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