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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 color is the light in the man's bedroom?
2. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
3. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
4. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
5. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
2. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
3. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
4. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
5. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
6. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
7. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
8. 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?
9. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the protagonist's search for meaning in "The Center of Things." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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