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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. In which hotel does Sarkis lodge?

2. How tall is John?

3. In which of the following does Percival claim to have published?

4. What college had Peggy attended?

5. Which of the following concert series are advertised to Tommy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is John called Gloria by the roller-skating group?

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

5. Why does Jeremy recommend against taking a bottle of water when surveilling others?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Table for Two? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 2

A number of characters in the anthology engage in activities of at-best-dubious legality. What attitude does the anthology as a whole display towards illicit activities? How is the attitude conveyed by the text?

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between a short story and a novella? What in the anthology and in your readerly experience provide evidence for that difference? How does the evidence serve to prove the difference?

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