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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 does the landlady say the mayor gave her?
(a) A stove.
(b) Carpet.
(c) Flowers.
(d) An award.
2. Who is with the landlady when the landlady is talking about the mayor?
(a) The mail carrier.
(b) The main character.
(c) No one.
(d) The landlady's son.
3. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
(a) Dismissive.
(b) Objective.
(c) Amused.
(d) Melancholic.
4. In the story's opening sentence, what is implied about the main character's writing?
(a) Her readers are gradually deserting her.
(b) She does not deserve the praise she has gotten.
(c) More than one of her stories is uninteresting.
(d) She is losing interest in her career.
5. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
2. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
3. 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)?
4. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?
5. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
2. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
3. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
4. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
5. 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?
6. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
7. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
8. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
9. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
10. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
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