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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 does Percival eat with Peter and his family?

2. For what price had Bond bought a van Gogh painting?

3. Which of the following does Percival note dines at La Maison?

4. To which of the following does Jeremy compare himself?

5. What was Fein’s wife named?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Fein record concerts at Carnegie Hall?

2. Why had Nell’s biological father started bringing weekly flowers to Peggy?

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

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

5. Summarize Percival’s opinion of Madeline Davis.

6. What are the initial partitions of the DiDomenico painting into fragments?

7. Why, per Percival, are there few DiDomenico paintings?

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

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

10. What does the narrator note Tommy wore to propose to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter- and section-length is present in the anthology, if any? What effect does the length of chapters and sections have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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