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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 color swimsuit does Margaret have?

2. With which of the following does Part Two begin?

3. What recording of the 40th Symphony does Peter listen to with Sylvia?

4. Which of the following is removed from the house in Kildare?

5. Where did Margaret attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What holiday plans does Christine try to get Peter and Ivan to attend?

2. Why does Margaret increasingly appreciate the town in which she lives?

3. Why does Peter not return to his apartment after his upset with Sylvia?

4. Whom does Margaret posit Anna thinks her romantic entanglement is?

5. What is Ivan reminded of as he takes Alexei from Christine’s home?

6. Why does Peter think he had it harder with Christine and her stepchildren than Ivan did?

7. Why is Margaret satisfied with the performance of the Goldberg Variations at her workplace?

8. Why is Margaret sympathetic towards her imagined version of Peter?

9. Why does Ivan hesitate to tell Margaret he loves her?

10. How did Ivan react to his friend’s promotion to International Master?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of Intermezzo? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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