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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what baggage item does Jerry delight?

2. When does Irina first learn Communist doctrine?

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

4. What agency’s stamp is in the shape of St. Basil’s?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

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

7. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

8. How does Touchett propose to meet his professional goals?

9. What marks Smitty’s social presentation as unusual?

10. How does Irina react to the Communist speaker she and Pushkin first hear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Table for Two? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the anthology supports the divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Table for Two on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the anthology? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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