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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 in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?
2. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?
3. Who is the author of "The Center of the Story"?
4. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
5. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?
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. 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?
3. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
4. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
5. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
6. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
7. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
8. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
9. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
10. Explain what the "yellow pall" is and what things in Davis's story it is attached to.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "The flat, static characters in 'The Center of the Story' are deliberately constructed to de-emphasize the role of individual personality in the story's plot." Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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