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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 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)?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Non sequitur.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Parallelism.

2. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
(a) Objective.
(b) Amused.
(c) Dismissive.
(d) Melancholic.

3. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Purple.
(d) Grey.

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

5. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?
(a) It is the reason she is angry at him.
(b) It is no one's business but his own.
(c) It caused the hurricane.
(d) It caused his illness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?

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

4. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?

5. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?

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