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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. What is an "alfresco" area of a restaurant?
(a) An outdoor section.
(b) The area where people wait for takeout orders.
(c) A smoking section.
(d) The section where alcohol is served.

2. What does Martina tell Val about Galway?
(a) She hates not being able to see the stars because of the city lights.
(b) It seems as far away as the moon to people like him.
(c) She wishes that she had gone to Dublin instead.
(d) The people there know ten times as much about the world as Val does.

3. How does Sarah defend herself when Tansey tries to drag her with him?
(a) She stabs him.
(b) She pepper sprays him.
(c) She punches him.
(d) She bites him.

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 recruiters for a cult.
(c) They are desperate for a child of their own.
(d) They are part of a child trafficking ring.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Tansey to "be nice" (30)?

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

3. Why is Teddy unable to speak at the end of "Bait" (35)?

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

5. Jimmy calls Marlene's mother "pragmatic" (4) How does she demonstrate this quality?

(see the answer key)

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