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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 brand of tequila does Albert order?

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

3. The bakery to which Irina dispatches Pushkin is on what street?

4. Which of the following writers does Touchett idolize?

5. Which of the following does Jerry note is in Washington?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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