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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. For how many hours does Pushkin wait for cabbage?

2. What brand of whiskey does Smitty purloin?

3. Which of Dos Passos’s works is Touchett asked to sign?

4. How many are ahead of Jerry when he joins the line to reschedule his flight?

5. In what year does Pushkin start queueing up for others?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what does Pushkin compare the Communist speaker he and Irina first hear?

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

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

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

7. What qualities does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” note are needed to read collections of letters?

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

9. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

In the anthology, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the anthology? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the anthology? How does Table for Two bear as much out?

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

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?

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