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

2. Which of the following writers does Touchett idolize?
(a) Grey.
(b) Porter.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Welty.

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

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

5. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?
(a) Democritus.
(b) Parmenides.
(c) Anaximander.
(d) Heraclitus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms does the cottage boast in which Pushkin and Irina lived?

2. Which of the following authors’ works does Touchett sign?

3. How does “Hasta Luego” gloss its eponymous phrase?

4. What limousine company is used by a traveler opting to drive, rather than fly, to Boston?

5. At what hotel does Jerry seek to stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

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

5. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

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

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

9. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

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