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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. The nickname of the Devers house and Dympna's troubles with women are evidence of what?
(a) The family's poverty.
(b) The community's fear of Dympna's reputation.
(c) Prejudice against the Traveller community.
(d) The difficult temperaments of the Devers sisters.

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

3. When Bat sees the beautiful woman with Heg, how does he feel?
(a) Self-conscious about his looks.
(b) Confused about who she reminds him of.
(c) Envious of Heg.
(d) Irritated that Heg has brought her.

4. What technique is being used in the sentence, "He had gaping thyroidal eyes, the broad skull and delicately tissued temples of a monk" (29)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Irony.
(d) Symbolism.

5. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?
(a) Senior.
(b) Respectable.
(c) Regular.
(d) Pissheads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Jenny and Sarah lead Teddy when they leave the pub?

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

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

4. What does the Irish expression "couldn't be arsed" mean (45)?

5. When Martina describes "Father Time" as "about two hundred years old" and having a "mountainous shaggy white beard," what technique is being used (47)?

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