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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) Confused.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Energized.
(d) Peaceful.
2. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
(a) Because she needed comfort during the hurricane.
(b) Because it was the High Holy Days.
(c) Because she wanted to know exactly what it said.
(d) Because she wanted to use Biblical allusions in her writing.
3. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?
(a) The main character.
(b) The landlady.
(c) The man who thinks he is dying.
(d) The woman at the church.
4. Where is the woman's landlady from?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Barbados.
5. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
(a) It is shaped like asterisks.
(b) It is shaped like crosses.
(c) It is shaped like the letter "x."
(d) It is shaped like diamonds.
Short Answer Questions
1. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
2. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
3. What technique is used in the sentence: "Outside her apartment, the weather was changing: the wind rose, the branches swayed on the young trees, and the leaves fluttered" (19)?
4. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?
5. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
2. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
3. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
4. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
5. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
6. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
7. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
8. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
9. What comment does the story make about paring a story down to the essentials, and what does this have to do with Davis's own style?
10. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
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