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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) Energized.
(b) Confused.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Peaceful.
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) Her next story.
(d) The devil.
3. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
(a) Melancholic.
(b) Dismissive.
(c) Objective.
(d) Amused.
4. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
(a) They are the choir.
(b) They are collecting the offering.
(c) They are ushers.
(d) They are worship leaders.
5. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
(a) It is Rosh Hashanah.
(b) It is Yom Kippur.
(c) It is Hanukkah.
(d) It is Sukkot.
Short Answer 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)?
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. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
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. Where is the woman's landlady from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
2. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
3. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
4. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
5. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
6. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
7. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
8. 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?
9. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
10. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
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