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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. How tall is John?

2. What works are Tommy and his wife set to hear as “The Bootlegger” begins?

3. On what day does Peggy assert John plays squash?

4. What performer are Tommy and his wife set to hear as “The Bootlegger” begins?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jeremy recommend against wearing a Mets cap when surveilling others?

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

5. What is Bobby Daniels’ current occupation?

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

7. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

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

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

10. What had Peggy summoned Nell to discuss most recently prior to the beginning of “I Will Survive”?

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

“The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” makes much of the ethics of intellectual property. What position does the story take? What in the text indicates as much, and how? Does that opinion reflect or contrast with prevailing opinion on the subject? How?

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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