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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. With what customer service worker does Smitty confer?

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

3. To which of the following does Smitty introduce Jerry?

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

5. At what time does Jerry suggest he and Smitty leave for the airport?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than urban fiction might Table for Two be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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

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?

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