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

2. Which of the following is Touchett’s roommate?
(a) Dan.
(b) Tim.
(c) Jim.
(d) Bob.

3. For how many hours does Pushkin wait for cabbage?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. How does “The Line” gloss the term “mir”?
(a) A framing collective.
(b) A farming cooperative.
(c) A failed congregation.
(d) A flaming conflagration.

5. What team’s game is playing when Jerry reaches the hotel bar?
(a) Giants.
(b) Knicks.
(c) Rangers.
(d) Jets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Pushkin initially rewarded for queuing up for others?

2. Which of the following writers does Touchett idolize?

3. On what street does Pennybrook have a shop?

4. Which of the following does Jerry pack as he travels?

5. Under what article of the Criminal Code does the NKVD convict intellectuals of counterrevolutionary activities?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Smitty’s wife demand Jerry get him out of the bar?

2. What does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” note an extra $50 per week might allow?

3. How does Touchett’s work on Dos Passos’s signature come across?

4. When does Touchett call on Pennybrook, and why?

5. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

6. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

7. Why does Jerry agree to do as Smitty’s wife bids?

8. How do Pushkin and Irina regard Moscow upon their arrival?

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

10. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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