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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 how many hours does Pushkin wait for cabbage?

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

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

4. To which of the following is Pushkin compared?

5. From where does Susie come?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why, per “Hasta Luego,” is emotional contagion important?

3. How is Irina employed in her Moscow collective?

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

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

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

7. Why does Jerry refuse to order room service dinners?

8. What does Jerry note as his major failing?

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of Table for Two. What in the text indicates as much? 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

Consider the ending of one selection in the anthology. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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