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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 woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
(a) Hope.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Laziness.

2. In the story's opening sentence, what is implied about the main character's writing?
(a) More than one of her stories is uninteresting.
(b) She does not deserve the praise she has gotten.
(c) She is losing interest in her career.
(d) Her readers are gradually deserting her.

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 calls each of her family members and friends.
(b) She shops for emergency supplies and fills her tub with water.
(c) She looks out the window and watches the news.
(d) She reads the Koran and the Talmud.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

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

5. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?

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