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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. To what collection does Percival first take Lucas?

2. How tall is John?

3. What luthier’s work are Tommy and his wife set to hear as “The Bootlegger” begins?

4. On what street does Fein live?

5. What was Fein’s wife named?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tommy react to the arrival of Fein at the beginning of “The Bootlegger”?

2. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

3. Why does Nell initially laugh off Peggy’s suspicions?

4. To what does Percival ascribe the decline of appetites with age?

5. Why does Jeremy opt to go out with a friend while Nell follows John?

6. What is the usual topic of Peggy’s complaints to Nell?

7. What does the narrator of “The Bootlegger” note would be her preferred downtime activity?

8. How does the narrator note Tommy takes after his father?

9. Why does Percival assert that admission to the Metropolitan Museum is for a “recommended” fee?

10. What is Bobby Daniels’ current occupation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In “I Will Survive,” as well as in some other places in the text, the narrator directly addresses the reader: “If this summary strikes you as rather cold and abrupt, imagine how it sounded to Peggy” (113). What effect does the direct address have on the reader, and how is the effect achieved?

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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