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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Confused.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Energized.
2. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
(a) The newscasters.
(b) Her friend's illness.
(c) The devil.
(d) Her next story.
3. 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)?
(a) Non sequitur.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Juxtaposition.
4. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
(a) Because she needed comfort during the hurricane.
(b) Because she wanted to use Biblical allusions in her writing.
(c) Because it was the High Holy Days.
(d) Because she wanted to know exactly what it said.
5. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Synesthesia.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?
2. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
3. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?
4. 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)?
5. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
2. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
3. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
4. Besides the timing of his phone call, what connects the man who thinks he is dying to the rest of the story the woman is writing?
5. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
6. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
7. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
8. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
9. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
10. What comment does the story make about paring a story down to the essentials, and what does this have to do with Davis's own style?
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