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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. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
2. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
3. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?
4. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
5. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
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 does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
3. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
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 woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
6. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
7. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
8. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
9. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
10. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the narrative voice of "The Center of the Story." Use quoted textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Go online and read both some of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and what critics have to say about her writing. Then, write a brief comparison and contrast essay in which you analyze what is similar and what is different in Dickinson's and Davis's styles. Be sure to use textual evidence from both authors and to cite all sources in MLA format (including sources of criticism.)
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of things that are absent, missing, or fail to happen in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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