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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 hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
(a) Passes by without actually striking the city.
(b) Drops large hail that smashes windows in buildings and in cars.
(c) Produces winds that uproot trees and tear off several roofs.
(d) Causes flooding that disrupts transportation.

2. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?
(a) He has food poisoning.
(b) He has cancer.
(c) He is having a heart attack.
(d) He has the flu.

3. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
(a) Congregationalist.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Episcopalian.

4. In the story's opening sentence, what is implied about the main character's writing?
(a) More than one of her stories is uninteresting.
(b) Her readers are gradually deserting her.
(c) She is losing interest in her career.
(d) She does not deserve the praise she has gotten.

5. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
(a) She understands more about herself and her life now that she has written it.
(b) She is losing touch with her passion as a writer.
(c) She cannot remember why she wanted to write it in the first place.
(d) She is afraid that the content of the story will upset her friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?

2. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?

3. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?

4. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?

5. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?

2. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?

3. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?

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. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?

6. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?

7. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?

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 arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?

10. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?

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