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

2. Which of the following so-called mystics does “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” cite?

3. What brand of whiskey does Smitty purloin?

4. For which of the following does Marya Borevna queue while Pushkin queues on her behalf?

5. In what Moscow district do Irina and Pushkin initially take up residence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Pushkin unable to retrieve milk as Irina had instructed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Consider novels you have read, whether for classes or for other purposes. What differences in effect on the reader exist between an anthology and a novel of similar length? From what do those differences proceed? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Table for Two? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the anthology supports the divisions that are in place?

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