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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. What is the name of Anna’s husband?

2. What color of cashmere top does Naomi have?

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

4. At which police station is Naomi held?

5. What does Ivan order at the restaurant with Peter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ivan ease his pre-performance jitters?

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

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

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

6. What is Ivan’s demonstration in Leitrim?

7. For what was Anna well known in her hometown?

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

9. How does Ivan explain not losing exhibition games?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Intermezzo. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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