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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. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
(a) It is Yom Kippur.
(b) It is Rosh Hashanah.
(c) It is Sukkot.
(d) It is Hanukkah.
3. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
(a) Islam.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Hinduism.
4. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
(a) Fear.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Hope.
5. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
(a) She calls each of her family members and friends.
(b) She reads the Koran and the Talmud.
(c) She looks out the window and watches the news.
(d) She shops for emergency supplies and fills her tub with water.
Short Answer Questions
1. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
2. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
3. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?
4. What does the landlady say the mayor gave her?
5. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
2. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
3. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
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. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
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 happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
10. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
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