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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. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?
(a) Purple.
(b) Grey.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.
2. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Imagery.
3. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Hope.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Fear.
4. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?
(a) It caused the hurricane.
(b) It is no one's business but his own.
(c) It is the reason she is angry at him.
(d) It caused his illness.
5. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
(a) It is about religion.
(b) It is about fear.
(c) It is about death.
(d) It is about friendship.
Short Answer Questions
1. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
2. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
3. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?
4. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
5. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
2. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
3. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
4. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
5. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
6. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
7. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
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 happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
10. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
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