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

2. Which of the following authors’ works does Touchett sign?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Babbitt.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Aiken.

3. What brand of tequila does Albert order?
(a) Cuervo.
(b) Patrón.
(c) Casamigos.
(d) Don Juilo.

4. What is the name of the artist with whom Pushkin confers?
(a) John Smith.
(b) Pickup Andropov.
(c) Giskard Reventlov.
(d) Sergei Litvinov.

5. How many rooms does the cottage boast in which Pushkin and Irina lived?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Pennybrook’s desk constructed?

2. What brand of phone does Jerry see in use at the airport as he works to reschedule his flight?

3. In which of the following queues does Petya offer to stand on Pushkin’s behalf?

4. Which of the following is Touchett’s roommate?

5. To what airport does Jerry mean to fly?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Pushkin pleased the bakery where he initially queues offers only one product?

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

4. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

5. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

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

7. Why does Touchett move to New York?

8. Why is Pushkin unable to retrieve milk as Irina had instructed?

9. What qualities does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” note are needed to read collections of letters?

10. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

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