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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. To what collection does Percival first take Lucas?

2. At which of the following had Percival worked?

3. Where did Ellie Houghton have her engagement party?

4. Which of the following does Jeremy note having eagerly read?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the DiDomenico fragment come to be?

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

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

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

5. What is the usual topic of Peggy’s complaints to Nell?

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

7. In what does Percival situate the origin of his family’s fortunes?

8. How does the narrator contrast popular and Classical music?

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

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

Sources attest to the presence of Table for Two on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the anthology? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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