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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Pennybrook report having met?
(a) Roth.
(b) Bellow.
(c) Updike.
(d) Mailer.

2. In what year do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1915.

3. What brand of phone does Jerry use?
(a) Samsung.
(b) Motorola.
(c) Nokia.
(d) Apple.

4. What is the name of Smitty’s wife?
(a) Elaine.
(b) Isolde.
(c) Morgan.
(d) Jennifer.

5. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?
(a) Lao Tzu.
(b) Xunzi.
(c) Kong Qiu.
(d) Mencius.

6. To which of the following does Smitty introduce Jerry?
(a) John.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Juan.
(d) Sean.

7. What does Jerry initially order in the hotel bar?
(a) Martini.
(b) Whiskey Sour.
(c) Rye Manhattan.
(d) Old Fashioned.

8. What book is Touchett reading as “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” begins?
(a) Retrospection.
(b) Collected Stories.
(c) Collected Essays.
(d) Collected Letters.

9. What brand of phone does Jerry see in use at the airport as he works to reschedule his flight?
(a) Samsung.
(b) Motorola.
(c) Apple.
(d) Nokia.

10. In whose memory is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Stanley Stout Towles.
(b) Stephen Pilsner Towles.
(c) Stokley Porter Towles.
(d) Stuart Bock Towles.

11. In what Moscow district do Irina and Pushkin initially take up residence?
(a) Khamovniki.
(b) Arbat.
(c) Presnensky.
(d) Tverskov.

12. From what city does a retired couple rescheduling their flight come?
(a) Iowa City.
(b) Des Moines.
(c) Cedar Rapids.
(d) Dubuque.

13. What agency’s stamp is in the shape of St. Basil’s?
(a) Internal Affairs.
(b) Expatriate Affairs.
(c) Revolutionary Orthodoxy.
(d) Currency and Commerce.

14. The store to which Irina dispatches Pushkin for sugar is on what street?
(a) Battleship Potemkin.
(b) Maxim Gorky.
(c) Tverskaya.
(d) Povarskaya.

15. From where does Susie come?
(a) Akron.
(b) Toledo.
(c) Lorain.
(d) Oberlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Pennybrook note shows up in Touchett’s calligraphic work?

2. How many are ahead of Jerry when he joins the line to reschedule his flight?

3. To which of the following is Pushkin compared?

4. On what street does Pushkin expect to find thread?

5. Of what is Pennybrook’s desk constructed?

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