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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 is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
2. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
3. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
4. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?
5. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
2. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
3. 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?
4. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
5. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
6. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
7. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
8. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
9. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
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 analyzes the role that fear plays in "The Center of the Story." Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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 explicates the comparison the story makes between written works and hurricanes. Explain how the comparison is first stated in the story and what it means in that instance. Then expand on this to detail what the comparison implies about well-written stories and the need for stories to "move" around a center.
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