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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "The Moon".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are there rumors about Sarah's parentage circulating around town?
(a) Everyone knows that the Dignans were not able to have their own children.
(b) She does not look or act like her family.
(c) She has an unusual way of speaking that sounds foreign.
(d) Her mother has had several affairs.

2. 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) Martina has accidentally left her phone behind at the Peacock.
(c) She has already complained to him about a boyfriend being too clingy.
(d) The reader is aware that Joan is the one who has feelings for Val.

3. What technique is evident in the phrase, "stall by a booth as she swabbed down tabletops sticky with spilled spirits" (41)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Verbal irony.

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

5. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?
(a) It creates dramatic irony because the characters do not know what the reader knows.
(b) It demonstrates that the government is not much help in the characters' lives.
(c) It establishes the tone of whimsy that continues with the child pretending to be a king.
(d) It portrays the government as a force of oppression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Tug's theory about the two women supposedly sighted with Wayne Clancy?

3. What technique is evident in the phrase "the squeaking of the wheels and the clanking of the chain" (47)?

4. How does Sarah defend herself when Tansey tries to drag her with him?

5. What is Jimmy's intention when he asks the child at the bridge "What class of weapon is that" (14)?

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