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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. What story does Pennybrook note shows up in Touchett’s calligraphic work?

2. With which of the following is Petya rewarded for queueing up for others?

3. On what street does Pushkin expect to find thread?

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

5. When does Irina first learn Communist doctrine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

3. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

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

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

7. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

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

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

Overall, how does the anthology present the use of alcohol and other drugs? What significance accrues to that presentation—or, if no significance accrues to that presentation, to what effect is the presentation made?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator of “The Line” asks the following question (13): “For to serve the ones we love and receive their approval in return, need life be any more complicated than that?” Does the remainder of the short story offer an answer to that question? If so, what is the answer and how is it presented? If not, what effect does raising the question and refusing to answer it have for the reader?

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