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

2. What flavoring is Pushkin tasked to add to his collective’s product?

3. From where does Susie come?

4. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett demur from forging?

5. How large a food and drink voucher had Smitty had?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

3. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

5. How does “Hasta Luego” gloss the term “emotional contagion”?

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

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

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

9. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some of the selections in the anthology are written from a first-person narrative perspective. Some are written from a third-person narrative perspective. What difference do the different perspectives make on the reading? What in the text and in experience result in those differences and how do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, what differences in effect on the reader exist among the individual entries in Table for Two? From what do those differences proceed? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Table for Two? By which groups? Why?

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