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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. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
2. Where is the woman's landlady from?
3. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
4. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
5. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
2. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
3. 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?
4. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
5. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
6. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
7. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
8. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
9. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
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 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 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the protagonist's visit to the Baptist church. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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