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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. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
2. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
3. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
4. Besides reading the Bible, what else does the woman spend her time doing in the period of time her story is about?
5. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
2. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
3. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
4. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
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 does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
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. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
10. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
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 significance of the protagonist's visit to the Baptist church. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Davis's use of syntax in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with quoted textual evidence.
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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