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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 can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
2. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
3. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
4. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
5. What technique is used in the sentence: "The story is flat and even, just as the earth seems flat and even when a hurricane is advancing over it" (19)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
2. 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?
3. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
4. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
5. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
6. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
7. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
8. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
9. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
10. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
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 significance of the fly that the writer ends up spending her time watching at the Baptist church. Support your essay with evidence from the text, and be sure to cite any outside sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Davis's diction in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with quoted textual evidence.
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