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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 detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
2. Who is with the landlady when the landlady is talking about the mayor?
3. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
4. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
5. Where is the woman's landlady from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
2. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
3. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
4. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
5. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
6. 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?
7. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
8. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
9. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
10. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the "center" of things in "The Center of the Story." Defend your claims with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the role that writing plays in the protagonist's life. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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