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

2. At what time does Jerry awaken for his rescheduled flight home?

3. Which of the following authors’ signatures does Touchett forge?

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

5. At what hotel does Jerry seek to stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Touchett move to New York?

4. Why does Touchett take the job Pennybrook offers him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

“The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” makes much of the ethics of intellectual property. What position does the story take? What in the text indicates as much, and how? Does that opinion reflect or contrast with prevailing opinion on the subject? How?

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

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?

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