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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. When does Irina first learn Communist doctrine?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

2. What story does Pennybrook note shows up in Touchett’s calligraphic work?
(a) “Big Two-Hearted River Part II.”
(b) “Big Tow-Hearted River Part I.”
(c) “Little Heartless Creek.”
(d) “Gilden-tree.”

3. On what street does Pushkin expect to find thread?
(a) Tverskaya.
(b) Povarskaya.
(c) Battleship Potemkin.
(d) Maxim Gorky.

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

5. How many are ahead of Jerry when he joins the line to reschedule his flight?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what customer service worker does Smitty confer?

2. For how many hours does Pushkin wait for cabbage?

3. In whose memory is the anthology dedicated?

4. What quality is ascribed to the artist with whom Pushkin confers?

5. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, per “Hasta Luego,” is emotional contagion important?

2. Why does Jerry refuse to order room service dinners?

3. On what does “The Line” assert “the wisdom of the peasant is founded” (5)?

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

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

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

7. What does Jerry note is the virtue of having a flight canceled early?

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

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

10. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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