30 June 2014 New Yorker Test
Elizabeth Kolbert “Old Bugs”
1. What’s so cosmopolitan about roaches?
David Sedaris “Stepping Out”
2. What has David’s Fitbit led to?
Jeffrey Toobin “The Absolutist”
3. What’s wrong with Cruz’s contention that only conservative platforms have won Republicans the presidency?
4. How did he win the Medellin case?
5. What made him oppose the Republican leadership on the debt ceiling vote?
Nathen Heller “Moment to Moment”
6. How does Linklater differ from other directors?
7. How does he rehearse?
Rebecca Curtis “The Pink House”
8. What is the significance of the tournadine ring?
9. What does the ending imply?
Hilton Als “Just Us”
10. What is Treem saying?
Caleb Crain “The Red and the Scarlet”
11. What were Crane’s sources for The Red Badge of Courage?
12. What experience did he have of war?

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