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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 hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
(a) Drops large hail that smashes windows in buildings and in cars.
(b) Produces winds that uproot trees and tear off several roofs.
(c) Causes flooding that disrupts transportation.
(d) Passes by without actually striking the city.

2. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?
(a) He wants to apologize for the argument they recently had.
(b) He wants to talk about death and the afterlife.
(c) He wants her to come over and help him.
(d) He wants her advice about whether to go to the hospital.

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

4. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
(a) She is White.
(b) She is not Black.
(c) She is not a Christian.
(d) She is Jewish.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?

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

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

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