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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Synesthesia.

3. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?
(a) Grey.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Purple.

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

5. 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)?
(a) She is unclear about how she feels about the man.
(b) This might not be the right time to tell his story.
(c) There is no real resolution to his story.
(d) The man will be angry that she wrote about him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?

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

4. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?

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

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