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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Calm With Horses" Pages 132-167.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paudi ask about Jack?
(a) Whether he likes the horse therapy.
(b) How old he is.
(c) Whether he has gotten better.
(d) How often Arm sees him.

2. What does Bat find in the gas station's bathroom sink?
(a) An empty beer can.
(b) A daddy long legs.
(c) A wad of toilet paper.
(d) A broken tube of lipstick.

3. Why does Tansey call Matteen "Judgeboy" (29)?
(a) He served as a county fair judge.
(b) His father is a judge.
(c) His last name is "Judge."
(d) He wears a long black coat in winter.

4. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?
(a) The college students are their hope for the future.
(b) The college students are abandoning those left at home.
(c) The college students are not smarter, just luckier.
(d) The college students are condescending and rude.

5. What offends Paudi about his brother's personal grooming?
(a) He has started wearing jewelry.
(b) His mismatched clothing.
(c) His hair-care routine.
(d) His collection of colognes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is being used in the sentence, "He had gaping thyroidal eyes, the broad skull and delicately tissued temples of a monk" (29)?

2. When Bat compares himself to "a thickset golem hewn from the scrabbled, sodden dirt of Connaught," what literary technique is employed?

3. What is Tansey doing when Teddy says that he "gouged the baize" (31)?

4. When Bat sees the beautiful woman with Heg, how does he feel?

5. When Sarah first gets into Teddy's car, what does she do?

(see the answer key)

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