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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 does Ivan order at the restaurant with Peter?

2. At what time in the morning does Margaret wake after her first night with Ivan?

3. What kind of musician had Margaret driven home before calling Ivan?

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

5. Along which of the following streets does Peter walk with Sylvia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ivan explain not losing exhibition games?

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

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

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

6. Why does Margaret fret about picking Ivan up from the bus stop?

7. What is Ivan’s demonstration in Leitrim?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Intermezzo do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Given the focus of the novel, which character would be what chess piece? What in the novel accounts for that selection? How does it do so?

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