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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. Who had slept over at Peter and Sylvia’s home before?

2. Which of the following does Ivan recognize as having been attracted to him?

3. Which of the following does Peter eat with Sylvia?

4. On which of the following streets does Naomi live as the novel begins?

5. What vocal range is Sylvia’s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ivan avoid closely contemplating his competition performance before giving it?

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

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

4. How does Ivan explain not losing exhibition games?

5. Why does Peter make a point of smiling at children and the elderly?

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

7. Why had Ivan not thought to borrow money from Peter?

8. Why does Ivan regard profit as an inefficiency?

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

10. How does Peter understand the quality of the suit Ivan wears at their father’s funeral?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Rooney’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 2

Sources attest to the presence of Intermezzo on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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