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

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

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

5. Who is with the landlady when the landlady is talking about the mayor?
(a) The main character.
(b) No one.
(c) The mail carrier.
(d) The landlady's son.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?

5. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?

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