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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 had been Tommy’s college major?

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

3. In what role is Jeremy employed?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Bobby Daniels’ current occupation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Overall, how does the anthology present the use of alcohol and other drugs? What significance accrues to that presentation—or, if no significance accrues to that presentation, to what effect is the presentation made?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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