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

2. What *author* is Touchett reading as “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” begins?

3. What is the name of Smitty’s wife?

4. In what city does Touchett have a grandmother?

5. How much would Touchett’s grandmother send him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What marks Smitty’s social presentation as unusual?

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

4. What does “The Line” suggest makes a discussion of the weather a pleasantry?

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

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

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

8. Why does Touchett move to New York?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Table for Two should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Towles’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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