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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Calm With Horses" Pages 79-131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the likely rhetorical purpose of the midges and the fly mentioned in the story?
(a) To show that even nature is conspiring against the characters.
(b) To demonstrate the constant small miseries of the characters' lives.
(c) To illustrate the kind of squalor and desperation the characters live with.
(d) To point out that the characters are partially responsible for their own troubles.

2. How many operations did Bat need after the assault?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

3. What technique is used when, on page 23, Teddy describes Sarah's father as a "hair-covered pudding"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Synechdoche.

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

5. What is ironic about the text message that Val sends to Martina at the end of the story?
(a) Martina has only pretended to go early to Galway in order to get out of seeing Val again.
(b) She has already complained to him about a boyfriend being too clingy.
(c) The reader is aware that Joan is the one who has feelings for Val.
(d) Martina has accidentally left her phone behind at the Peacock.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jimmy snaps at Tug about his speculation about Wayne Clancy, how does Tug react?

2. Bat suffers from tinnitus. What does this cause?

3. What do Tain, Heg, and Bat do on their break?

4. What technique is used in the sentence, "Slender reeds brush against one another as cleanly as freshly whetted blades" (13)?

5. Who is the "drummer" that Joan mentions in her conversation with Martina?

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