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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 is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
(a) They are ushers.
(b) They are worship leaders.
(c) They are collecting the offering.
(d) They are the choir.

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

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

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

5. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Purple.
(c) Grey.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the landlady say the mayor gave her?

2. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?

3. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?

4. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?

5. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?

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

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 did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?

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

9. 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?

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

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