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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
2. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?
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. Where is the woman's landlady from?
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. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
2. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
3. 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?
4. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
5. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
6. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
7. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
8. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
9. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
10. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the role that writing plays in the protagonist's life. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the motif of inclusion and exclusion in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Davis's use of syntax in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with quoted textual evidence.
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