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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 religious crisis.
(b) A death.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A flood.

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

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

4. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?
(a) Cursed God's name.
(b) Contemplated suicide.
(c) Told a harmful lie about someone.
(d) Shown disrespect to God.

5. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?
(a) Her distance from the city.
(b) Her thoughts about religion.
(c) The direction she is traveling.
(d) The water level.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?

3. 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)?

4. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?

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

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