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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. To which of the following restaurants does Tommy take his wife?
(a) Eleven Madison Park.
(b) Sylvia's.
(c) Sardi’s.
(d) Russian Tea Room.

2. On what avenue does Percival live?
(a) Madison.
(b) Lexington.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Park.

3. In what state had Nell’s biological father had a summer house?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.

4. Which of the following does Percival note dines at La Maison?
(a) Lionel Cornell.
(b) Lester del Rey.
(c) Leon de Coeur.
(d) Lawrence Lightman.

5. What college did Reese attend?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Medgar Evers.
(d) Fordham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator invoke in her rumination on Classical music?

2. What performer are Tommy and his wife set to hear as “The Bootlegger” begins?

3. To which of the following does Percival compare an Annunciation?

4. In what year do Tommy and his wife begin to attend concerts at Carnegie Hall?

5. In which hotel does Sarkis lodge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the usual topic of Peggy’s complaints to Nell?

2. In what does Percival situate the origin of his family’s fortunes?

3. Why had Nell’s biological father started bringing weekly flowers to Peggy?

4. How does Tommy get seats at Carnegie Hall?

5. Why does Jeremy recommend against wearing a Mets cap when surveilling others?

6. Why does Jeremy recommend against taking a bottle of water when surveilling others?

7. How does the narrator contrast popular and Classical music?

8. Why does Percival assert that admission to the Metropolitan Museum is for a “recommended” fee?

9. How does the narrator note Tommy takes after his father?

10. Why does Fein record concerts at Carnegie Hall?

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