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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. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
(a) They are ushers.
(b) They are the choir.
(c) They are collecting the offering.
(d) They are worship leaders.

2. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Congregationalist.

3. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
(a) She looks out the window and watches the news.
(b) She shops for emergency supplies and fills her tub with water.
(c) She calls each of her family members and friends.
(d) She reads the Koran and the Talmud.

4. 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) Simile.
(d) Allusion.

5. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
(a) She understands more about herself and her life now that she has written it.
(b) She is losing touch with her passion as a writer.
(c) She is afraid that the content of the story will upset her friend.
(d) She cannot remember why she wanted to write it in the first place.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what reason, besides that "there may not be enough to tell about him," does the woman think that the man might not be the right "center" for her story (20)?

3. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?

4. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?

5. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?

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