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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. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
(a) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Hinduism.

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

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

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

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 devil.
(d) The newscasters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?

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. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?

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

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

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