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

2. In which of the following colors is Nell’s apartment painted?

3. Which of the following is among the Seven Joys?

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

5. Which of the following does Jeremy note having failed to read?

Short Essay Questions

1. What traits does Tommy possess that are helpful professionally but unhelpful personally?

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

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

4. How does Percival get into clubs of which he is not a member?

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

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

7. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

8. What is Bobby Daniels’ current occupation?

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

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

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

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 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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