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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: "Diamonds".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is evident in the page 143 sentence "It was drenched in a swathe of syrupy, sticky stuff turned dark plum against the denim"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Alliteration.

2. What technique is used when Paudi says that he will "have to take [the dog] for a walk up the heather" (135)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Personification.

3. What does Arm take from Fannigan's house?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A religious statuette.
(c) A television.
(d) A wad of cash.

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

5. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?
(a) The college students are not smarter, just luckier.
(b) The college students are abandoning those left at home.
(c) The college students are their hope for the future.
(d) The college students are condescending and rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Teddy describes Sarah as "daffy" (20). What does this word mean in this context?

2. What is a reasonable inference from the description of Dympna's car in the opening of the story?

3. 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)?

4. What does Tug do to Mark's car?

5. At the AA meeting, what does the man say he was doing when he lost his fingers?

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