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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. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
3. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?
4. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?
5. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
2. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
3. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
4. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
5. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
6. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
7. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
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. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
10. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of 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 image of the river water coming close to, but not covering, the train tracks. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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