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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. Where is the woman's landlady from?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Barbados.
(d) Cuba.
2. What does the hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
(a) Produces winds that uproot trees and tear off several roofs.
(b) Drops large hail that smashes windows in buildings and in cars.
(c) Passes by without actually striking the city.
(d) Causes flooding that disrupts transportation.
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 shops for emergency supplies and fills her tub with water.
(b) She looks out the window and watches the news.
(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) Allusion.
(d) Simile.
5. 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)?
(a) She is unclear about how she feels about the man.
(b) There is no real resolution to his story.
(c) This might not be the right time to tell his story.
(d) The man will be angry that she wrote about him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?
2. Who is with the landlady when the landlady is talking about the mayor?
3. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
4. What technique is used in the sentence: "Outside her apartment, the weather was changing: the wind rose, the branches swayed on the young trees, and the leaves fluttered" (19)?
5. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
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