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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 is Touchett’s roommate?

2. In what year does Pushkin start queueing up for others?

3. At what hotel does Jerry seek to stay?

4. Which of the following writers does Touchett idolize?

5. What story does Pennybrook note shows up in Touchett’s calligraphic work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Some of the selections in the anthology are written from a first-person narrative perspective. Some are written from a third-person narrative perspective. What difference do the different perspectives make on the reading? What in the text and in experience result in those differences and how do they do so?

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