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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 what year did Percival’s father die?

2. What flowers does Nell note in Central Park?

3. What had been Tommy’s college major?

4. Which of the following does Nell invoke in an argument with Jeremy?

5. Which of the following does the narrator invoke in her rumination on Classical music?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the narrator agree to go to Carnegie Hall with Tommy?

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

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

8. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

9. What, per Nell, was at the root of Peggy’s fear about John?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

The narrator of “The Line” asks the following question (13): “For to serve the ones we love and receive their approval in return, need life be any more complicated than that?” Does the remainder of the short story offer an answer to that question? If so, what is the answer and how is it presented? If not, what effect does raising the question and refusing to answer it have for the reader?

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