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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. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
2. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
3. Where is the woman's landlady from?
4. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
5. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
2. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
3. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
4. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
5. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
6. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
7. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
8. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
9. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
10. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "'The Center of the Story' is built around an analogy comparing a person's life to a written story." Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that explicates the comparison the story makes between written works and hurricanes. Explain how the comparison is first stated in the story and what it means in that instance. Then expand on this to detail what the comparison implies about well-written stories and the need for stories to "move" around a center.
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