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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: The Center of the Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
(a) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Hinduism.

2. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
(a) It is shaped like crosses.
(b) It is shaped like the letter "x."
(c) It is shaped like asterisks.
(d) It is shaped like diamonds.

3. What technique is used in the sentence: "The story is flat and even, just as the earth seems flat and even when a hurricane is advancing over it" (19)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

4. Where is the woman's landlady from?
(a) Barbados.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Trinidad.

5. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
(a) Because she needed comfort during the hurricane.
(b) Because she wanted to know exactly what it said.
(c) Because she wanted to use Biblical allusions in her writing.
(d) Because it was the High Holy Days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?

2. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?

3. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?

4. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?

5. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?

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