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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 piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?
(a) Charlie has run away.
(b) Fannigan is dead.
(c) Jack loves horses.
(d) Ursula is in college.

2. Why does Arm not run for the car when Paudi pulls out his rifle?
(a) He thinks Paudi is joking.
(b) It is out of gas.
(c) He does not have the keys.
(d) It is too far away.

3. In Bat's dream, what does the "mustard-seed" suit allude to?
(a) A Greek myth.
(b) A passage in the Bible.
(c) A film he saw in childhood.
(d) A Jewish folktale.

4. Who tells Tansey to "be nice" (30)?
(a) Teddy.
(b) Matteen.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Jenny.

5. Which character "resembles nothing so much as his own freshly revived corpse" (54)?
(a) Heg.
(b) Bat.
(c) Tansey.
(d) Dungan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Matteen ride in the back of Teddy's car?

2. What is implied when the crowd begins to thin out after Tansey arrives?

3. What does Arm reveal to the widow?

4. Why does his manager send Bat to work in the back?

5. Which sentence most clearly conveys a thematic motif of this story?

(see the answer key)

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