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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 does the hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
3. For the majority of the story, what tone does the narrator adopt?
4. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?
5. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
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. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
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 book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
5. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
6. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
7. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
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 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?
10. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
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 diction in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with quoted textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
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.
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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