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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 does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
2. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
3. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
4. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
5. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
3. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
4. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
5. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
6. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
7. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
8. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
9. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
10. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
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
Write an essay that analyzes the role that the newscasters and the news play in "The Center of the Story." Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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