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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 do Tain, Heg, and Bat do on their break?
(a) Smoke a joint.
(b) Scroll through their phones.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Drink beer.

2. Jimmy calls Marlene's mother "pragmatic" (4) How does she demonstrate this quality?
(a) By reading the television listings at three a.m.
(b) By watching David for Marlene while Marlene goes out with friends.
(c) By not caring when Marlene brings Jimmy home at three a.m.
(d) By drinking cold tea herself but offering Jimmy and Marlene hot tea.

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

4. What is Tug's theory about the two women supposedly sighted with Wayne Clancy?
(a) They are taking him to his birth father.
(b) They are desperate for a child of their own.
(c) They are recruiters for a cult.
(d) They are part of a child trafficking ring.

5. In Teddy's opinion, how has constant attention affected Sarah's personality?
(a) It has made her self-conscious.
(b) It has made her suspicious.
(c) It has made her spoiled.
(d) It has made her eccentric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Bat's hair?

2. What is ironic about the text message that Val sends to Martina at the end of the story?

3. What does Arm take from Fannigan's house?

4. What does Bat's mother accuse him of constantly doing?

5. What technique is used in Teddy's description of a pool ball spinning "confusedly on its own axis" (31)?

(see the answer key)

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