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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's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?
2. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
3. Who is the author of "The Center of the Story"?
4. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
5. What technique is used in the sentence: "Outside her apartment, the weather was changing: the wind rose, the branches swayed on the young trees, and the leaves fluttered" (19)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
2. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
3. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
4. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
5. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
6. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
7. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
8. 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?
9. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
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 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 analyzes the significance of the fly that the writer ends up spending her time watching at the Baptist church. Support your essay with evidence from the text, and be sure to cite any outside sources in MLA format.
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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