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

2. What brand of tequila does Albert order?

3. Of what is Pennybrook’s desk constructed?

4. How does “The Line” gloss the term “mir”?

5. What does Jerry note a Maine accountant knows how to depreciate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pennybrook portray Dos Passos to Touchett?

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

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

4. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

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

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

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

8. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Table for Two? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator of “The Line” asks the following question (13): “For to serve the ones we love and receive their approval in return, need life be any more complicated than that?” Does the remainder of the short story offer an answer to that question? If so, what is the answer and how is it presented? If not, what effect does raising the question and refusing to answer it have for the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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