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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 quality is ascribed to the artist with whom Pushkin confers?

2. On what October day do Pushkin and Irina arrive in Moscow?

3. What book is Touchett reading as “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” begins?

4. Where does Susie work?

5. The bakery to which Irina dispatches Pushkin is on what street?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do Pushkin and Irina regard Moscow upon their arrival?

7. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Towles’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter- and section-length is present in the anthology, if any? What effect does the length of chapters and sections have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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