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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time does Jerry suggest he and Smitty leave for the airport?
(a) 6:15.
(b) 6:00.
(c) 6:30.
(d) 6:45.

2. In what baggage item does Jerry delight?
(a) Rolling suitcase.
(b) Garment bag.
(c) Backpack.
(d) Dopp kit.

3. Where does Susie work?
(a) Leo Castelli Gallery.
(b) Public Theater.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) CUNY.

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

5. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett demur from forging?
(a) Mailer.
(b) Roth.
(c) Udpkie.
(d) Bellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Pennybrook report having met?

2. On what October day do Pushkin and Irina arrive in Moscow?

3. Of which of the following is Jerry reminded by a fellow elevator passenger?

4. How much would Touchett’s grandmother send him?

5. At what time does Jerry awaken for his rescheduled flight home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

2. Why does Touchett take the job Pennybrook offers him?

3. What marks Smitty’s social presentation as unusual?

4. Why is “Prufrock” a poor choice for seductive reading, per “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett”?

5. What does “The Line” suggest makes a discussion of the weather a pleasantry?

6. How does “Hasta Luego” gloss the term “emotional contagion”?

7. Why does Jerry opt to order room service breakfasts?

8. How does Irina react to the Communist speaker she and Pushkin first hear?

9. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

10. To what does Pushkin compare the Communist speaker he and Irina first hear?

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