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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 does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
(a) A death.
(b) A religious crisis.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A flood.

2. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?
(a) He has food poisoning.
(b) He has cancer.
(c) He is having a heart attack.
(d) He has the flu.

3. What does the landlady say the mayor gave her?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A stove.
(c) An award.
(d) Carpet.

4. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
(a) It is Hanukkah.
(b) It is Yom Kippur.
(c) It is Sukkot.
(d) It is Rosh Hashanah.

5. 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) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer 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)?

2. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?

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

4. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?

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

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