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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. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
(a) Her next story.
(b) Her friend's illness.
(c) The newscasters.
(d) The devil.

2. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
(a) The Trials of Job.
(b) Jonah and the Great Fish.
(c) Noah's Ark.
(d) The Garden of Eden.

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

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) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Personification.
(d) Allusion.

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 caused the hurricane.
(c) It is no one's business but his own.
(d) It caused his illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Center of the Story"?

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

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

4. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?

5. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?

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